The National Care Forum (NCF) – the leading association for not-for-profit social care is pleased to announce a partnership with Fulcrum Care Consulting to provide full consultancy to NCF members on compliance and regulation via its NCF Consult service.
Fulcrum is a leading care consultancy firm providing high-quality support for a wide variety of care settings. Core consultancy services provided by Fulcrum cover quality, compliance and regulation including advice to members for successful CQC inspections. They will also be providing crisis management and governance support to NCF’s wide range of 170+ not-for-profit care and support provider members.
Liz Jones, Deputy CEO and Policy Director at NCF said: “I’m delighted to welcome Fulcrum as a key partner of the National Care Forum; this exciting new partnership with Fulcrum will enable us to provide a much greater scale of expert regulatory support to our members as well as sharing broader key insights and learnings from their regulatory support work withmembers. Fulcrum will be a very valuable partner for NCF and we look forward to working with them to help members navigate their way to outstanding CQC compliance with confidence across the diversity of our members’ care and support services, ranging from care homes for older people, supporting living and domiciliary care to complex care servicesand support for people with a learning disability and/or autism.
“Fulcrum will also provide an important resource for members looking for support around their dementia care offer, so we look forward to harnessing this expertise in enabling our members to assure themselves that their dementia care offer remains person-centred and of the highest quality.
“We’re excited to start this new chapter of partnership with Fulcrum and look forward to connecting our members with their expert consultants so they have access to a wider offer of expertise and support to help them navigate the world of regulation so they are in the best possible position to be ready for a positive inspection experience, feel equipped to respond to less positive inspection outcomes and, ultimately, be able to demonstrate great quality care and support and therefore improve their CQC ratings.”
Fabio Cecchi, Commercial Director at Fulcrum Care commented: “We are delighted to become an annual partner of the National Care Forum and to support members delivering care and support across such a diverse range of services.
“At Fulcrum Care, we recognise that every provider faces a different set of operational, regulatory, and commercial challenges. Whether supporting older people, people with learning disabilities or autism, or delivering home care, supported living or complex care, providers need practical, experienced support that reflects the realities of their service.
“Through this partnership, we want to help NCF members identify risk earlier, strengthen governance and quality, respond confidently to regulatory pressures, and create conditions for sustainable improvement. Our focus is on clear, hands-on guidance that helps providers address immediate challenges while building greater resilience for the future.”
To find out more about Fulcrum and their offer to NCF’s not-for-profit care and support provider members visit the NCF website.
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