ECA Member Services
ECA Member Briefings
ECA hosts regular briefing meetings for members free of charge. These are held at a number of different venues across the county and can be held as breakfast meetings or during the day. Topics are items of interest to members e.g. Safeguarding, CQC compliance, etc.
- Click here for an ECA GDPR event in association with Cura Systems
- Please note, a charge is made for non-members.
“The breakfast briefing held in June 2011 about completing the CQC Provider Compliance Assessments was very helpful. It has given me the confidence to start work on this and keep in closer touch with my CQC inspector.”
Care Quality Commission Feedback
ECA meets regularly with the Care Quality Commission to represent social care providers across Essex, Southend and Thurrock. Feedback from these meetings is made available to ECA members through regular news feed items.
ECA Regular Newsletters
ECA members are kept updated on news and information relevant to the social care sector by regular ECA newsletters.
- April 2019
- May 2019
- July 2019
- August 2019
- September 2019
- November 2019
- December 2019
- January 2020
- February 2020
- March 2020
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Join ECA today - Reduced fees for 2020-2021
22 September 2020
ECA membership 2020-21
The new ECA membership year begins on 1st October 2020 and we would like to invite you to join us.
In recognition of the exceptional challenges that our sector is facing, we have significantly reduced our membership rates as follows:
Small Providers*: £99 Large providers: £175
This is a saving of at least 50% - more for small providers!
We would love you to join us and have the opportunity to connect with like-minded people working in the same sector; share views, or concerns; and keep up to date with what's new in social care across Essex, Southend and Thurrock.
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ECA Survey Results - how providers felt they were supported through the Covid-19 crisis
17 August 2020
ECA recently undertook a survey of providers to find out how they felt they were supported through the Covid-19 crisis as well as what were the key issues that needed addressing now and how did they want to engage with ECC. Unfortunately ,we had a low response rate, but here are the headlines:
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Get inspection ready: 100 proven tips to improve your care service’s rating by Citation
17 August 2020
It is not clear exactly when CQC inspections will happen and how these will run, but we do know inspection activities are beginning to resume.
Though we understand it’s still a difficult time for providers, with no doubt more challenges on the horizon, now’s the time to start thinking ahead and getting inspection ready.
One of ECA’s Commercial Partners, Citation, has produced a valuable free guide to care inspections, offering 100 proven top tips to improve your care service’s CQC rating.