Demonstrating Progress and Change in Domiciliary Care Tenders

August 5, 2025

🧠 Blog 6 of 7 in our Outcomes-Based Domiciliary Care Series

📈 Outcome-based care is about change — not just delivery. To succeed in modern tenders, you must show how your service enables people to make progress, achieve goals, and live more independently over time. For tailored bid support, see our Domiciliary Care Bid Writer and Learning Disability Bid Writer services — designed to evidence change, not just compliance.

Commissioners want more than reassurance that needs are being met. They want to know your service supports improvement, not maintenance alone.

🔁 Use reviews to show measurable change. Highlight how regular reviews aren’t just a formality. Show how you work with individuals and families to update goals, assess achievements, and identify new opportunities for progression.

For example:

“At each review, we ask: what has changed, what’s been achieved, and what’s next?”
“We document progress using [specific tool], agreed with the individual.”

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📊 Use data and tools — but explain them clearly. If you use progress tracking frameworks (e.g., independence scales, wellbeing scores, outcome stars), briefly explain how they work and how they inform your care planning. Don’t assume the assessor knows your systems.

Example: “We use a traffic-light framework to support goal planning. This enables individuals to visualise progress and prioritise their next steps.”

📖 Tell a story — not just a score. Use anonymised examples to show how someone’s life changed because of your support. Stories help humanise your service and bring the data to life. Focus on before/after, challenges overcome, and personal achievements.

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🧠 Outcomes-Based Domiciliary Care Series

This 7-part blog series explores how home care providers can strengthen their tender responses, CQC evidence, and frontline culture by focusing on outcomes — not just tasks. Each post dives into a different angle of outcomes-based practice and how to demonstrate it with confidence and clarity.