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BBC<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWelsh care homes will receive a new rating system from next month.<\/p>\n It is aimed at helping families asses the quality of care provided in a home.<\/p>\n Each care home and domiciliary support service will be graded on four different aspects of care, but it will take two years for every home to be inspected and given a rating.<\/p>\n Ratings will have to be displayed at the home and online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Former automotive worker Howard Evans, 79, lives at Ty Porth care home in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, alongside his wife Elaine.<\/p>\n He said a rating system was a good idea.<\/p>\n “It puts the emphasis on the ones that are not so good to build themselves up,” he said.<\/p>\n “You hear sometimes about different homes not looking after each other, they shouldn’t be doing it,” he added.<\/p>\n “It will sort them all out – as people get older, they need more care.” <\/p>\n The four aspects of care being graded are well-being, care and support, leadership and management, and the environment in the home.<\/p>\n Each of these will be judged as excellent, good, requires improvement or requires significant improvement.<\/p>\n A similar system already exists in England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hayley Humphries said it was difficult finding a care home for her mother-in-law Moirwen, 76, from Pontypridd.<\/p>\n “The impact of looking for the right place is huge,” she said.<\/p>\n “As a family we researched, we looked online, we got a sense of different companies – yes I think a rating system would really help for people who perhaps aren’t able to do that independently,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aneurin Brown, chief executive of Hallmark Care Homes which operates 23 care homes across Wales and England, said the move created more trust. <\/p>\n “We’re positive about it, we see it as something which is inevitably going to increase the standard of care, give more transparency and trust,” he said. <\/p>\n “What’s important is that we give choice, we give the transparency to families to make an informed decision. They can look on a website, they can look on a front door and they can say, this is probably the most important purchase I will make for my loved one or myself,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Welsh government said it hoped the new system will improve standards across the Welsh care sector.<\/p>\n Minister for children and social care Dawn Bowden, said: “It’s about having confidence in the system for people who are coming into residential homes, for families that are thinking about placing some of their relatives into residential homes.<\/p>\n “It’s a very big decision for you to take, as a parent or a relative – and so you want some easy access to understandable information, and this a quick at-a-glance picture.”<\/p>\n The new inspection ratings system will come into force on Tuesday 1 April and ratings will be shown in inspection reports on Care Inspectorate Wales’ website.<\/p>\n Children’s care homes and care homes for adults with four or less residents will not have display their rating on their building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\")
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