Inspection recency bands each location's time since last check against a target review date: 6 months following an Inadequate rating, 12 months following Requires Improvement, or 30 months following Good or Outstanding, per CQC's own published guidance, or 24 months as a default where no rating is held. Locations within 90 days of that target review date, but not yet past it, are shown as due soon; those past it are overdue.
Ownership league table New
Search by service category instead of place: who owns the most CQC-regulated locations of a given type, and where are they. This uses the same Companies House ownership trace as the "Owner" column above, rolled up nationally per category.
| Rank | Owner | Type | CQC locations traced to this owner | |
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"Type" reflects the ultimate controlling party found by walking each provider's Persons with Significant Control (PSC) filings at Companies House: an identified individual, a UK holding company, an overseas entity, or (where a company has formally filed that it has no registrable controller, which is itself a valid, disclosed Companies House status) "Undisclosed". Ownership chains can also be stale — PSC filings sometimes lag real acquisitions by a year or more — so treat named owners as the most recent disclosed position, not a live confirmation.
Local authority league table New
All 298 local authorities CQC-regulated locations resolve to, ranked however you like — alphabetically, by how overdue the area's backlog is, or by rating quality. Built the same way as the map above: every location's postcode resolved to its current local authority district. Click a column to sort; click a local authority's name to jump to it on the map above.
| Local authority | CQC locations | Overdue | Overdue % | Good/Outstanding % (of rated) | Proposed new area (LGR) |
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"Overdue %" bands each location's time since last inspection against CQC's own target review intervals (see note below the map). "Good/Outstanding % of rated" excludes locations with no published rating — nationally 56% of locations carry one, but this varies a lot by area, so check the CQC locations count before reading too much into a small local authority's percentage. "Proposed new area (LGR)" cross-references the local government reorganisation table further down this page — a dash means this local authority isn't part of any currently confirmed or pending reorganisation (either already a unitary authority from an earlier reform, or not a two-tier area at all). Two local authorities in this dataset (Cardiff, Flintshire) fall outside England and so have no boundary on the map above, for the same reason noted in the Methodology section below — they still appear in this table.
Local government reorganisation, 2026 New
This is the full programme, not just the most recent announcement. The government invited 21 two-tier areas to submit reorganisation proposals in February 2025; decisions have now been confirmed for 19 of them, in three batches — Surrey first (fast-tracked, elections already set for May 2026), then Essex/Southend/Thurrock, Hampshire/Isle of Wight/Portsmouth/Southampton, Norfolk and Suffolk, then the remaining 14 areas confirmed on 16 July 2026. West Sussex and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough are still going through consultation, marked "Pending" below rather than omitted. Across the 19 confirmed areas, 190 existing councils are being streamlined into 55 new unitary authorities. This table lists each area's current constituent councils (matched against the local authority league table above) so you can see which ones map into today's data. New unitary names and boundaries had not been finalised for most areas as of this table's compilation, so only the count of new unitaries is shown, not their names.
| Area | Current councils being merged | Becoming | Status |
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| Surrey | Surrey (county), Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking | 12 councils → 2 unitaries (East Surrey, West Surrey) | Confirmed — elections May 2026 |
| Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock | Essex (county), Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock, Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Tendring, Uttlesford | 15 councils → 5 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton | Hampshire (county), Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton, Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley, Winchester | 15 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Norfolk | Norfolk (county), Norwich, Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, South Norfolk | 8 councils → 3 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Suffolk | Suffolk (county), Ipswich, Babergh, East Suffolk, Mid Suffolk, West Suffolk | 6 councils → 3 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire (county), Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury | 7 councils → 1 unitary | Confirmed |
| Derby and Derbyshire | Derby, Derbyshire (county), Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire | 10 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Warwickshire | Warwickshire (county), North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick | 6 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Worcestershire | Worcestershire (county), Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest | 7 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Oxfordshire | Oxfordshire (county), Cherwell, Oxford, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, West Oxfordshire | 6 councils → 3 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire (county), Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St Albans, Stevenage, Three Rivers, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield | 11 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland | Leicester, Rutland, Leicestershire (county), Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston | 10 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (county), Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Rushcliffe | 9 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| East Sussex and Brighton and Hove | Brighton and Hove, East Sussex (county), Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, Wealden | 7 councils → 2 unitaries, with boundary modifications | Confirmed |
| Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (county), Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth | 10 councils → 2 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool | Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire (county), Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre | 15 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Kent and Medway | Medway, Kent (county), Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells | 14 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Devon, Plymouth and Torbay | Plymouth, Torbay, Devon (county), East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon | 11 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire | North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire (county), Boston, East Lindsey, Lincoln, North Kesteven, South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey | 10 councils → 4 unitaries | Confirmed |
| West Sussex | West Sussex (county), Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Worthing | 8 councils → unitary count not yet decided | Pending — in consultation on modified proposals |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | Cambridgeshire (county), Peterborough, Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire | 7 councils → unitary count not yet decided | Pending |
Sources: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, "14 more areas to benefit from streamlined local services" (16 July 2026, covering the 14 most recent areas), and earlier decisions confirmed for Surrey, Essex/Southend-on-Sea/Thurrock, Hampshire/Isle of Wight/Portsmouth/Southampton, Norfolk and Suffolk. West Sussex's status reflects the live consultation on modified proposals. Per-area council counts for confirmed areas are quoted directly from official releases; the list of named constituent councils in the middle column is this site's own matching against the local authority names in the league table above, not an official published list, and has been checked to reconcile exactly against each area's quoted council count. Note also that some earlier press coverage of the 16 July announcement described West Berkshire as merging into the Oxfordshire reorganisation; the government's own release does not include West Berkshire in any of the 14 areas confirmed that day, so it is not shown here.
CQC has separately confirmed that full adult social care assessments are "unlikely" to take place for up to six months after vesting day in these areas — see CQC's guidance on regulating during local government reorganisation.
The charts previously shown here (inspection recency, time since last inspection and rating bands, all by category) now appear in a dedicated companion briefing: Health and Social Care: inspections data monitor.
Methodology
Locations and providers are drawn from CQC's public care directory (22 July 2026 snapshot). Ratings are drawn from CQC's published Overall-domain ratings (1 July 2026 snapshot) — only locations assessed under CQC's five-key-question framework carry an Overall rating; most other service types show as not rated on this specific scale, not necessarily unassessed by CQC more generally. Postcodes are resolved to their current (2024 boundary review) Westminster parliamentary constituency via postcodes.io, itself built on ONS's National Statistics Postcode Lookup. Each location's raw CQC service-type tags are grouped into a short set of categories (Care homes, GP services, Dentists, Home care, Hospitals, Hospices, Clinics, Community services, Ambulances, and others) aligned to CQC's own published "Services we regulate" categories, rather than shown as CQC's internal, sometimes duplicated tag combinations.
A single location in this dataset (IV Wet Room Ltd, a mobile IV-drip wellness service) carries a Cardiff postcode and so falls in a Welsh constituency, despite CQC's remit otherwise covering England only. This is not a postcode-resolution error — the provider is genuinely registered with and regulated by CQC from a Cardiff base, per CQC's own published register — so it is retained rather than excluded.