Care Quality Commission 

CQCis the regulating body for domiciliary care, residential and nursing care homes in England and Wales. This website gives you access to inspection reports, news articles and related advice and information. CQC replaced CSCI in April 2009 and now also register all health and social care providers including hospitals and soon GP surgerys.

UK Home Care Association

This is a professional association that aims to promote high standards of care in both private and public sector organisations. With over 1600 members accross the UK, this association is the leading source of professional support for home care srvices.

NHS Direct

This is a useful web based version of the telephone service which is a popular source of medical information and advice. This website will also give you links to other NHS sites.

Nursing and Midwifery Council

This is the regulating body for the nursing profession and provides information on the professionals' code of conduct as well as relevant news and support articles.

This is the regulating body for the social care professions and will over the next few years require all domiciliary care workers to become fully registered. The website provides valuable information on this process as well as other important news for social care.

Royal College of Nursing

A professional body which provides a wide range of guidance for care processes and a continuing source of advice for all members of the health and social care professions.

Torbay Council

Providing local information on all council run and associated services in the Torbay area.

Devon County Council

Providing information an all council run and associated services throughout Devon, it also provides links to the local and district councils that operate under Devon County (South Hams, Teignbridge etc.).

Essential 6 Training and Development

A professional training and development company which provide a range of care sector courses as well as general industry courses such as Health and Safety, Manual Handling, Food Safety and First Aid.

South Devon College

The major local further and higher education provider for the South Devon area specialising in vocational education routes. The college has a well developed Health and Social Care department offering both full and part time programmes to suit a range of needs.