Welcome to the first issue of the CareClarity Bulletin. This one works differently from the guidance articles on the site. Once a month, we're going to tell you what's actually happening at CareClarity: what shipped, what we're building next, and what we're hearing from the registered managers and RIs using it.

CareClarity went live on 29 June. This issue covers the first month.

What the month looked like

The first month was mostly about the guidance library. We published three new articles: a complete breakdown of the 9 Quality Standards, a guide to what Working Together 2026 changed for children's homes specifically, and a full walkthrough of Statement of Purpose requirements under Schedule 1. That brings the library to ten articles, each one mapped to a specific compliance area and, where it's relevant, to the CareClarity tool that helps you act on it.

We also submitted CareClarity for listing on AlternativeTo, which matters less for what it is and more for what it signals: we're building this to be found and compared honestly, not just marketed at people already looking for us.

None of this is dramatic. That's deliberate. A compliance platform for Ofsted-regulated homes earns trust slowly, by being right consistently, not by moving fast and hoping nobody checks.

What's in the works

The next thing we're building is a Reg 44 Action Planner: a way to turn the findings from an independent visiting officer's report directly into a tracked action plan, rather than leaving that translation step to whoever has time for it that week. It's in beta internally right now while we get the format right before it reaches every account.

Beyond that, the weekly guidance article continues on schedule, and we're starting to fold real usage patterns back into the tools themselves: which sections of a Document Review report managers actually act on, which parts of a Reg 45 review get skipped, that kind of thing. Nothing gets rebuilt on a hunch. It gets rebuilt because we watched what people needed and the tool didn't quite give it to them yet.

What we're hearing

The most common thing we hear from managers in the first few weeks isn't about a specific tool. It's relief that something looks at their writing honestly, without either rubber-stamping it or burying them in generic feedback that could apply to any home in England. That's the whole point of building this with Kayleigh in the room: a tool that reflects what a good report actually looks like, not a textbook version of one.

The other thing coming back to us, unprompted, is about the documentation itself. Managers using CareClarity for a few weeks are telling us their records read differently: fewer generic phrases like "no concerns" doing all the work, more specific detail that would actually hold up if an inspector asked a follow-up question. That's the effect of running a report past a second set of eyes before it's finished, not after Ofsted has already read it.

We don't have a polished set of numbers to share yet, and we'd rather wait until we do than round up. What we can say honestly is that the accounts opened in the first month have kept using the tools past the first week, which is the number that actually tells you something at this stage.

What's next

Next issue lands the last Thursday of August. Expect an update on how the Reg 44 Action Planner beta went, and wherever the guidance library has grown to by then.

If there's something specific you'd want to see covered here, tell us. This is still a young publication and it'll shape around what's actually useful to the people reading it.