Scott-Moncrief is a leading firm, established over 30 years ago and known for its commitment to delivering high quality legal services at an affordable cost.
 Experience
We provide extensive experience in working with registered providers nationwide in relation to the following:
- Appealing to the First-Tier Tribunal (Care Standards) against Notices of Decision to cancel, vary, suspend or refuse registration
- Challenging inspection reports to secure amendments to the reports and changes to ratings
- Preparing persuasive evidence-based representations to Notices of Proposal to cancel, vary, suspend or refuse registration
- Challenging Warning Notices
- Preparing effective factual accuracy comments on draft inspection reports
- Requesting ratings reviews
- Making formal complaints
- Defending providers faced with criminal enforcement action, including persuading regulators to withdraw Fixed Penalty Notices
- Advising and supporting providers to register services and to secure amendments to conditions of registration
We also advise providers on:
- Local authority safeguarding matters
- Health and Safety enforcement
- Contract compliance with consumer law and contract disputes with local authorities
- Local authority adult safeguarding and LADO investigations, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Serious Case Reviews
- Mental Capacity and Liberty Protection Safeguards
- Regulatory prosecutions including by CQC, Ofsted and the Health and Safety Executive
- Professional Disciplinary
- Specialist regulatory and commercial services to GP practices
- Buying or selling a care home
- New care home developments, including specialist construction law matters
- Care sector commercial property issues
- Employment issues in the social care and healthcare sectors
- General care home/homecare commercial matters and litigation
Approach
Our advice to clients is commercial and strategic and our experts have:
- won appeals at tribunal against CQC and Ofsted Notices of Decision;
- successfully challenged Notices of Proposal;
- persuaded regulators to withdraw Fixed Penalty Notices;
- successfully defended and mitigated Health and Safety Prosecutions; and
- guided provides through local authority safeguarding matters.