# Comment on a Reg 44 draft

Source: https://arccare.co.uk/help/reporting-inspection/comment-on-a-reg-44-draft
Last updated: 2026-10-28

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.