About us

We look at the whole picture of adult social care in England. This includes social services teams at councils, care homes and care agencies.

• What is social care?

We regulate, inspect and review all adult social care services in the public, private and voluntary sectors in England.

We give a star rating to councils and, from 2008, a quality rating to care services.

Find out more below or read a booklet about CSCI

What's new

Get the latest news about us and the world of social care:

• News
• Press releases
• Publications
• Speeches

How we are run

• Our visions and values
• Our history
• Our people
• Our annual reports  
• Commission meetings
• Legal information

What we do

We put the people who use social care services at the heart of all we do. We listen to their views and involve them in our inspections.

We are independent but set up by Government to promote improvements in social care and stamp out bad practice.

We report our findings to the Government and publish a report to Parliament every year on the state of social care.

More about our work

• Registering and inspecting care services
• Our work with local councils
• How we use our legal powers
• How we use our expert voice

We look mostly at adults' services. Since April 2007, social care services for children have been monitored by Ofsted.

• More about children's services