Comment on a Reg 44 draft

When your visitor has finished a draft, it appears on your Reg 44 page. You and the Responsible Individual (RI) can comment on it. Only the visitor changes the text.

Commenting

1. Open the visit on the Reg 44 page and read the draft.
2. Add a comment against the section it is about. Each comment shows your role (Registered manager), not your name, to anyone outside the home.
3. Select Finished commenting when you are done. The draft moves to the RI, who comments in the same way. The RI does not need to be a member of the home.

Your comments stay in the visit's history. They are not sent to Ofsted.

What the visitor does next

The visitor reads your comments and revises. Every revision is a new version, and the earlier versions are kept. When they are happy, they sign off. Sign-off locks the text: nobody can edit it afterwards, including the visitor.

If you do not comment

The report does not wait for you. Ofsted expects it by a due date, and ARC works that out from the visit date. If the home never replies, the visitor can sign off without comments, and the reason is recorded.

After the report is sent

• Ofsted receives the PDF.
• The report is filed in Reports as a locked record and counts as the home's Reg 44 evidence for the month.
• The recommendations become tasks for the home, each with the consider-by date.
• The people you listed under Recipients are told by an email that holds a link and no report text.

Recipients

Each new recipient gets an email asking them to confirm their own address. A report is not sent to anyone who has not confirmed, apart from Ofsted. The send log on the visit shows who was sent what and when, and who was skipped.