“The accreditation gives care providers tangible points of change to improve their care as well as recognising exceptional practice”

Professor Martin Green, Care England

140 best practice standards grounded in current research

What’s the commitment for managers?

The purpose of the Dementia Care Accreditation is for your dementia care to be the best it can possibly be with the resources you currently have. We do require some of your time to implement changes as well as a commitment to make changes that we might recommend. During the process of being assessed, supported and monitored, home managers should commit to one hour per week for 16 weeks as a minimum.

Achieving dementia care accreditation .

A programme recognising and improving your current level of dementia care practice

  1. Dementia Care Audit

Our experts assess your environment, your team approach and your person-centred practices to understand your current baseline when benchmarked against our current year’s framework. Our face to face audit covers over 140 areas of best practice which are reviewed annually by our advisory board.

2. Report and action plan

Our reports outline what you are doing well and what you could be working on over a sixteen week period. We make a plan of action which you can implement with clear objectives and strategies.

3. Progress reviews

After we have delivered your action plan and taken you through it we will schedule how to support you. We will review how your action plan is going and provide support to ensure improvements are having an impact.

4. Masterclasses and coaching

We will enrol you onto our specialist workshops if we can see gaps in your team’s knowledge. Coaching sessions are delivered by qualified professionals with 10+ experience in dementia care and run monthly.

5. Re-assessment

Our professionals will re-assess the areas which were not initially graded as met and to see the changes you have made to lift your quality level of informed dementia care practice.

6. Accreditation award

We will award your Accreditation level after we have seen that any changes have been made and that you meet the accreditation standard we have set for the current year. We will provide you everything you need to tell the world about your success and to tell families that you have been Accredited for the year.

  • This is a consultation led by a practitioner who has had at least 10 years experience of working in the dementia care space. This is most often conducted remotely or it can be completed in person; we just ask that you pay any travel costs we incur.

  • After your free consult you can request our full accreditation package which is a 26 week programme which supports you to improve and recognise your dementia care practice level.

    The other option might be about us providing some specialist advice, recommendations or training before agreeing that you go through the accreditation process.

  • After you go through our 26 week programme, you can request extra consultancy from our qualified team members on specific issues relating to dementia care provision or management training which is chargeable by a day rate.

Accreditation fees

We have one fee for each accreditation package we deliver in partnership with selected care providers. This fee is split across three phases; there is an assessment, report and action planning phase, a support and training phase and then a re-assessment and accreditation award phase.

There is an annual award licence and membership fee which is payable after your initial award level has been provided.

Fees for each accreditation package are individual for the care provider we partner with. For context however, assessment, report and action planning fees start at £4375+VAT (until 1st March 2026).

Annual award licence, membership and six monthly review fees are currently £1950+VAT (until 1st March 2026)

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A message from one of our assessors

We have one mission and that is to improve Dementia Care across the sector. I am one of the qualified practitioners who come and audit providers and work with them on them achieving their Dementia Accreditation.

As Dementia is increasing across the UK, there is an increasing need to support managers and staff as well as looking at how the environment can support people with dementia to live well.

Person Centred Care is easy to say but very hard to achieve with the resources you have. Our recognised Accreditation Programme helps you to be the best you can with the resources you’ve got when it comes to dementia care provision.

Amy Brand-Cookson