close Cancel email WhatsApp link share Share bookmark SaveThousands of England’s residential care homes are failing their elderly residents with the care they provide, analysis of the latest available Care Quality Commission (CQC) data shows. CQC, the health and social care regulator, assesses care homes under four ratings – outstanding, good, requires improvement, and inadequate. More than 10,600 care homes were rated good and 616 were rated outstanding. He added: “For users, social care is the only big risk that we all face where there’s no risk pooling available.” At least 22 major reviews, commissions and reports, including Dilnot’s, have been published on social care since 1997.