Check your digital capability →
For care home owners & registered managers

Your digital systems are in place.
Is your team getting real value from them?

Most care providers now have digital social care records. Far fewer are getting consistent value from them. The gap shows up in your audit trail, your inspection evidence, and the verbal updates that should be in the system.

Check your digital capability → 10 questions  ·  5 minutes  ·  No cost
10 questions
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Summary report included
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CQC & Digital Skills
Mapped to both frameworks
0%
of providers have made the switch. Is yours working for you?
0 days
to complete a care plan digitally, down from seven on paper — when the system is used correctly
0 min
to review a care plan on a digital system, versus four hours on paper

These gains depend on consistent adoption across the whole team. Having a system and getting real value from it are not the same thing.  —  Department of Health and Social Care, December 2025.

What we hear from care home owners and managers

Where digital investment quietly stalls

These are the four patterns we see most often when digital investment is not translating into operational value.

Paper workarounds running alongside digital systems

Staff complete records on paper first, then transfer to the system, or miss it entirely. The audit trail looks incomplete because it is.

Staff digital confidence varies sharply across the team

Senior staff use the system well. Others struggle with basic functions or avoid it. The variation creates inconsistent recording and compliance risk.

CQC evidence gaps that only appear under pressure

Records that seemed adequate day to day turn out to be incomplete when it counts. Pulling evidence for inspections takes far longer than it should.

No clear operational picture as a leader

You rely on verbal updates because the system is not giving you real-time visibility. You cannot demonstrate the return on your digital investment.

Free assessment

Digital Capability Check

Ten questions. A clear score across five dimensions. A PDF summary sent to your inbox.

Get a clear picture of your digital capability

Answer honestly based on your experience day to day, not how you would like things to be.

Used by registered managers and owners across residential, nursing and supported living services in England

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Answer 10 questions
Across five dimensions: system usage, staff confidence, compliance evidence, incident management, and leadership oversight
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Get your score instantly
A percentage score for each dimension, showing exactly where value is being lost
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Receive your PDF summary
A findings summary with your priority areas sent directly to your inbox
5 minutes Confidential No cost

Free to complete. No obligation. Useful regardless of where you are on your digital journey.

Your results
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overall capability score

Your score is a starting point, not a verdict.

A Digital Capability Review turns your results into a clear action plan. A structured 60-minute conversation, full gap analysis, and specific next steps for your service — not a generic report.

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Common questions

What people ask us

Digital social care records deliver their value through consistent, correct use across the whole team. The most common gap is not the technology. It is the combination of variable staff confidence, informal workarounds and a lack of leadership visibility on how the system is actually being used day to day. The Digital Capability Check is designed to surface exactly where those gaps are.
That uncertainty is more common than most managers want to admit. Paper workarounds, inconsistent recording quality and gaps in the audit trail can exist even in services where staff say they are using the system. The check asks questions that get beneath the surface, not what your team is supposed to do, but what is actually happening in practice.
Under the Single Assessment Framework, inspectors expect access to digital records and dashboards on the day. Evidence increasingly lives in your digital systems across all five quality statements. Services with strong digital records do not need to scramble when an inspection is announced. Their records are inspection-ready as a by-product of good daily practice.
The Digital Capability Check applies across all registered care settings: residential, nursing, supported living and domiciliary. The Digital Capability Review is tailored to your specific service type. Supported living providers often face a distinct challenge: dispersed teams, multiple locations and mobile-first systems create different capability risks to a single-site residential service.
Your results and a PDF summary are delivered immediately. For many organisations, the check itself surfaces enough clarity to act on independently. Where there is a need to go deeper, a Digital Capability Review is the natural next step: a structured 60-minute discovery conversation, a full gap analysis and a prioritised action plan specific to your service.
Digital Care Leader was founded by specialists with backgrounds in digital transformation, programme delivery and regulated service environments. The approach draws on established social care and digital skills frameworks, built in close collaboration with care providers.