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Sentinel

Sentinel. Guidance, evidence and drafts.

Use Sentinel for care-compliance guidance, policy and procedure drafts, and evidence-informed readiness work. Your organisation’s permissions and human review remain in control.

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Modules

Grouped the way you actually work.

40 modules sharing one evidence base, so nothing is entered twice.

Compliance & Governance

Policy Centre

Authoring, approval and issue of every policy

A single controlled home for your policies — drafted, reviewed, approved, issued and acknowledged, with a permanent version history behind every document.

  • Draft, review and approve with named owners
  • Automatic review cycles and expiry alerts
  • Read-and-sign assignment by role or site
  • Full version history and change notes

What it gives you

  • One approved version in circulation
  • Acknowledgement evidence on demand
  • No policy silently out of date
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Procedure Library

Working instructions your teams actually use

Step-by-step procedures that sit underneath each policy, written in plain language for the people carrying out the task at the point of care.

  • Procedure linked to its parent policy
  • Plain-language, mobile-first format
  • Local variations per site or service
  • Search by task, not by document title

What it gives you

  • Consistent practice across every shift
  • Faster induction for new starters
  • Fewer avoidable practice errors

Compliance Centre

The regulatory backbone of your organisation

Policies, procedures and evidence mapped to the regulations they satisfy, updated when the law changes.

  • Regulation-mapped document set
  • Automatic legislative updates
  • Personalised to your service type
  • Evidence linked to each requirement

What it gives you

  • Continuous regulatory alignment
  • Inspection evidence always ready
  • Less manual maintenance
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Evidence Centre

Every claim you make, evidenced

A structured evidence store mapped to regulations and quality statements, so any assertion can be proven in seconds.

  • Evidence mapped to quality statements
  • Freshness and expiry tracking
  • Tagging by service, site and regulation
  • One-click evidence pack export

What it gives you

  • Instant answers to inspector requests
  • No duplicated evidence gathering
  • Gaps visible before they matter

Quality & Improvement

Audit Centre

A structured audit programme without spreadsheets

Schedule, complete, score and act on audits across every location, with actions generated automatically.

  • Template library plus bespoke audits
  • Scoring and trend analysis
  • Auto-generated action plans
  • Multi-site comparison

What it gives you

  • Defensible audit trail
  • Actions closed, not just logged
  • Board-level assurance
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Action Centre

Every improvement action in one accountable list

Actions from audits, incidents, complaints, inspections and consultancy visits converge into a single tracked plan with owners, deadlines and evidence of closure.

  • Single action list across all sources
  • Owner, priority and due date on every action
  • Evidence attached at the point of closure
  • Escalation when actions slip

What it gives you

  • Nothing falls between the cracks
  • Demonstrable improvement over time
  • Clear accountability at every level

Mock Inspections

Know your rating before the regulator tells you

A full simulated inspection against the Single Assessment Framework with a predicted rating and prioritised plan.

  • Quality-statement aligned
  • Predicted rating with reasoning
  • Evidence gap analysis
  • Branded downloadable report

What it gives you

  • No surprises on inspection day
  • Gaps closed in advance
  • A credible improvement narrative
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Inspection Readiness

A live readiness score, not an annual panic

Continuous assessment of how prepared you are right now, broken down by key question, with the specific evidence still missing.

  • Live readiness score by key question
  • Evidence checklist per quality statement
  • Inspection-day document pack
  • Manager and board views

What it gives you

  • Permanent inspection readiness
  • Targeted effort where it counts
  • Confidence before the call comes

Risk & Safety

Risk Management

A living risk register leadership actually reads

Organisational, clinical and operational risk in one register with scoring, controls, owners and review cycles.

  • Scored register with heat map
  • Controls and mitigations tracked
  • Review scheduling and escalation
  • Board-ready risk reporting

What it gives you

  • Risk visible before it becomes harm
  • Evidence of well-led governance
  • Consistent scoring across sites

Incident Management

Report, investigate, notify, learn

Structured incident recording with investigation support, statutory notification prompts and thematic learning.

  • Guided incident reporting on mobile
  • Root cause and contributory factor analysis
  • CQC, RIDDOR and safeguarding notification prompts
  • Theme and trend analysis

What it gives you

  • Faster, calmer incident response
  • Notifications never missed
  • Genuine organisational learning

Safeguarding Centre

Concern to conclusion, fully documented

A dedicated workflow for safeguarding concerns, alerts and enquiries with strict access control and a complete chronology.

  • Concern intake and triage
  • Local authority referral tracking
  • Restricted access and confidentiality controls
  • Chronology and outcome recording

What it gives you

  • Consistent safeguarding practice
  • Defensible records under scrutiny
  • Clear oversight for the safeguarding lead

People & Learning

Learning Centre

Mandatory training, tracked and evidenced

CPD-aligned eLearning mapped to the Care Certificate and mandatory training standards.

  • Full mandatory course library
  • Care Certificate pathway
  • Certificates stored automatically
  • AI Training Coach support

What it gives you

  • Training compliance at a glance
  • No expired certificates
  • Faster inductions
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Staff Training Matrix

One RAG grid that proves workforce compliance

A live matrix of every staff member against every required course, including classroom and third-party training.

  • RAG status by person and course
  • External training recorded alongside eLearning
  • Renewal reminders before expiry
  • Export for inspection or commissioners

What it gives you

  • Instant workforce compliance proof
  • Fewer last-minute expiries
  • Targeted training spend

Competency Management

Trained is not the same as competent

Observed competency assessments, supervisions and sign-offs that evidence capability, not just course completion.

  • Observation and sign-off workflows
  • Supervision and appraisal records
  • Competency frameworks per role
  • Re-assessment scheduling

What it gives you

  • Demonstrable staff competence
  • Structured supervision evidence
  • Safer delegation of tasks

Rostering

Right staff, right place, right skills

Scheduling that understands training expiry, contracted hours, travel time and safe staffing levels.

  • Training-aware assignment
  • Travel time and round optimisation
  • Agency and overtime cost control
  • Staff app with swaps and availability

What it gives you

  • Fewer unfilled shifts
  • Lower agency spend
  • Documented safe staffing
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HR & Workforce

The employee record inspectors ask to see

Personnel files, right-to-work, DBS, references and employment documents held in one compliant workforce record.

  • Digital personnel files
  • DBS and right-to-work expiry tracking
  • Contracts and policy acknowledgements
  • Absence and return-to-work records

What it gives you

  • Schedule 3 compliance evidenced
  • No expired checks in service
  • One source of workforce truth

Recruitment

Safer recruitment, end to end

Vacancy to induction, with the compliance checks built into the pipeline rather than chased afterwards.

  • Applicant tracking pipeline
  • Reference and DBS chasing
  • Safer recruitment checklist
  • Automatic handover to induction

What it gives you

  • Faster time to hire
  • Safer recruitment evidenced
  • No incomplete files at start date

Care Delivery

Care Planning

Person-centred digital care records

Digital care plans, risk assessments and reviews built around outcomes and what matters to the person.

  • Outcome-led care plans
  • Linked risk assessments
  • Scheduled reviews
  • Family involvement records

What it gives you

  • Records that stand up to scrutiny
  • Less time writing
  • Visible risk
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Care Notes

Recording at the point of care

Structured daily notes captured on mobile, with prompts for quality and immediate visibility of exceptions.

  • Mobile point-of-care recording
  • Quality prompts and structured fields
  • Exception and omission alerts
  • Timestamped, attributable entries

What it gives you

  • Higher quality daily records
  • Real-time manager oversight
  • Reduced administrative burden

Medication Management

Electronic MAR with a full audit trail

Administration recording, missed-dose alerting, stock control and medication audit in a single controlled workflow.

  • Electronic MAR charts
  • Missed and refused dose alerts
  • Stock and disposal records
  • Medication audit and error analysis

What it gives you

  • Fewer medication errors
  • Immediate escalation of omissions
  • Audit-ready medication evidence

Dementia Centre

Specialist practice, built in

Dementia-specific assessments, life-story tools, environmental audits and staff learning in one dedicated centre.

  • Life story and 'this is me' tools
  • Dementia-friendly environment audits
  • Distress and behaviour support planning
  • Specialist staff learning pathway

What it gives you

  • Better outcomes for people with dementia
  • Evidence of specialist practice
  • More confident staff

Insight & Oversight

Governance Dashboard

Well-led, demonstrated with data

A single governance view drawing audits, incidents, complaints, training and risk into one assurance picture.

  • Assurance view across all domains
  • Exception and escalation flags
  • Meeting packs generated automatically
  • Historic trend comparison

What it gives you

  • Evidence of effective oversight
  • Faster governance meetings
  • Issues surfaced early

Quality Assurance

A continuous improvement cycle you can prove

Plan-do-study-act cycles linking audit findings, feedback and incidents to measurable improvement.

  • Improvement cycles with measures
  • Quality objectives and progress
  • Linked evidence at each stage
  • Improvement reporting for boards

What it gives you

  • Improvement you can evidence
  • Focus on what changes outcomes
  • A visible quality narrative

KPI & Analytics

The numbers that predict quality

Configurable KPIs across compliance, workforce, incidents and feedback, with benchmarking between services.

  • Configurable KPI library
  • Site and group benchmarking
  • Trend and forecast views
  • Scheduled reporting by email

What it gives you

  • Early warning of decline
  • Objective performance comparison
  • Data-led leadership decisions

Multi-site Management

Group oversight without losing local detail

Manage two services or two hundred with group-level rollups, local autonomy and consistent standards.

  • Group, region and site hierarchy
  • Standardised documents with local variation
  • Comparative dashboards
  • Role-based access per site

What it gives you

  • Consistency across the group
  • Local ownership retained
  • Portfolio-wide visibility

Engagement

Complaints Management

Complaints handled to timescale, every time

Log, acknowledge, investigate and respond within statutory timescales, with themes fed into quality improvement.

  • Statutory timescale tracking
  • Investigation and response templates
  • Theme analysis across complaints
  • Learning linked to the Action Centre

What it gives you

  • No missed response deadlines
  • Complaints that improve the service
  • Evidence of a responsive culture

Feedback Centre

The voice of people you support, captured and acted on

Surveys for people using the service, families, staff and professionals, with automatic theme analysis and 'you said, we did' reporting.

  • Survey templates and QR distribution
  • Anonymous response collection
  • Sentiment and theme analysis
  • Published you-said-we-did outcomes

What it gives you

  • Evidence of co-production
  • Early warning of quality concerns
  • Stronger family and staff trust
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Family Portal

Families informed, appropriately

A secure portal giving families the updates they need, with consent and permissions controlled by the service.

  • Permission-controlled updates
  • Secure messaging with the service
  • Visit and event information
  • Feedback capture from relatives

What it gives you

  • Fewer chasing phone calls
  • Higher family confidence
  • Documented family involvement

Platform

Forms Builder

Build any form without waiting for us

A drag-and-drop builder for audits, checklists, assessments and returns, with routing, scoring and reporting.

  • Drag-and-drop form design
  • Conditional logic and scoring
  • Assignment and reminders
  • Results feed analytics and actions

What it gives you

  • Digitise any paper process
  • No development lead time
  • Data instead of filing cabinets

Document Library

One controlled home for everything else

Your own contracts, certificates, plans and correspondence, version-controlled and permission-managed alongside the policy set.

  • Folder and tag structure
  • Permission control per document
  • Expiry alerts on certificates
  • Full-text search

What it gives you

  • Nothing lost in shared drives
  • Certificates never lapse
  • Faster document retrieval

API & Integrations

Connect the systems you already run

A documented API and prebuilt connectors so payroll, HR, finance and clinical systems share data rather than duplicate it.

  • REST API with scoped keys
  • Webhooks for events
  • Single sign-on support
  • Prebuilt payroll and HR connectors

What it gives you

  • No double data entry
  • Cleaner reporting
  • A platform that fits your stack

Sentinel Intelligence

AI Compliance Assistant

Regulatory answers in seconds, on every page

Ask any compliance, care or incident question and get the immediate actions, the relevant regulation and exactly what to document.

  • Available on every screen
  • Actions first, then regulation
  • Grounded in your own policies
  • Role-aware depth of answer

What it gives you

  • Confident decisions out of hours
  • Consistent practice
  • Documentation nobody forgets
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AI Policy Writer

Adoption-ready policies in minutes

Generate a complete, regulation-mapped policy for your service type, ready for review, approval and issue.

  • Full policy structure generated
  • Legislation and regulation referenced
  • Personalised to your service
  • Straight into the approval workflow

What it gives you

  • Days of drafting reduced to minutes
  • Consistent house style
  • Nothing left unwritten

AI Audit Writer

Bespoke audit tools on demand

Describe what you need to audit and Sentinel builds the question set, scoring and evidence prompts for you.

  • Question sets generated from a prompt
  • Scoring and weighting suggested
  • Evidence prompts per question
  • Publishable to the Audit Centre

What it gives you

  • Audit any topic immediately
  • Higher quality question design
  • No template hunting

AI Care Plan Review

A second pair of expert eyes on every plan

Sentinel reviews care plans for person-centredness, risk coverage, consistency and regulatory sufficiency.

  • Gap analysis against best practice
  • Risk coverage check
  • Person-centred language review
  • Suggested improvements inline

What it gives you

  • Stronger care documentation
  • Risks caught before harm
  • Faster supervision of records

AI Inspection Coach

Rehearse the conversation before it happens

Practice inspector questions by key question, get feedback on your answers and see which evidence to have to hand.

  • Question bank by quality statement
  • Feedback on answer quality
  • Evidence prompts per question
  • Team-wide preparation tracking

What it gives you

  • Calmer, better prepared managers
  • Stronger inspection interviews
  • Shared readiness across the team

AI Evidence Reviewer

Does your evidence actually prove it?

Sentinel assesses uploaded evidence against the quality statement it is meant to support and flags what is weak or missing.

  • Strength rating per evidence item
  • Mapping to quality statements
  • Missing evidence identified
  • Suggested stronger alternatives

What it gives you

  • Evidence that withstands challenge
  • Effort focused on real gaps
  • Fewer inspection surprises

AI Risk Predictor

Signals before incidents

Pattern analysis across incidents, audits, staffing and feedback to surface emerging risk before it becomes harm.

  • Cross-domain pattern detection
  • Emerging risk alerts
  • Suggested preventive controls
  • Site comparison of risk profile

What it gives you

  • Earlier intervention
  • Fewer repeat incidents
  • Proactive rather than reactive governance

AI Action Plan Generator

From findings to a credible plan

Turn audit findings, inspection reports or incident outcomes into a prioritised action plan with owners and timescales.

  • Prioritised by regulatory risk
  • Owner and timescale suggestions
  • SMART action wording
  • Published to the Action Centre

What it gives you

  • Faster regulatory responses
  • Plans regulators accept
  • Actions that get closed

AI Report Writer

Board and regulator reports, drafted for you

Generate governance reports, provider information returns and board papers from the data already in your platform.

  • Board and governance report templates
  • Data pulled from live modules
  • Narrative written to house style
  • Branded PDF export

What it gives you

  • Hours of report writing saved
  • Consistent leadership reporting
  • Evidence-backed narrative

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