Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04899 by Kevin Stewart on 15 December 2021, how many inspections of care homes for adults have been carried out by the Care Inspectorate in each year since 2021, and how many of these were return inspections.
Inspections of care homes for adults and older people completed 2021-22 to 2024-25 (to date)
Inspection year | |||||
2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 (Apr24 - Oct24) | ||
Total number of inspections completed in care homes for adults and older people | 848 | 1151 | 1034 | 583 | |
of which: 'Return inspections' completed (i.e. number of second and subsequent inspections) | 391 | 329 | 346 | 120 | |
Source: end of year inspection data files 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, and 31 October 2024 inspections completed files.
Note: the return inspections are a subset of the total number of inspections completed, not in addition to the total number.