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Process Library & Governance

Inspection-ready, every day. Not just at audit.

Forty-five operational processes across five pillars. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, ad hoc. Tracked, scheduled, owned. The compliance and governance layer your competitors don't have.

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Why governance breaks

Compliance fails at scale.

Most supported accommodation providers run their compliance and governance work on instinct and Excel. The registered manager holds the picture in their head — what's due this week, what's overdue, what hasn't been touched in months. This works at three properties. It breaks at fifteen. By thirty it's a daily fire-fight.

Care providers face inspection cycles from CIW (Wales), Ofsted (England), and CQC where applicable. Plus internal governance, insurance audits, framework agreements, ICO compliance, safeguarding board reporting, and increasingly cyber security audits. Each requires evidence: policies in date, training current, supervisions logged, incidents reviewed, complaints handled, safeguarding referrals tracked, statutory reviews completed.

Most providers reconstruct this evidence under inspection pressure — a week of stress for the registered manager, gaps almost certainly missed, anxious management. Then the next inspection cycle restarts the same scramble.

How we fixed it

Forty-five processes. Five pillars. One dashboard.

TIFA Connect treats every recurring governance process as a structured object with five attributes — a frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, ad hoc), a pillar (Commercial Growth / Operations & Safeguarding / Workforce & HR / Property & Infrastructure / Finance & Performance), a named owner (a specific human, not a role), a last-run timestamp, and a due date.

Forty-five processes total in the standard library, across five pillars. Each process produces a record when it runs. The record is the evidence trail — what happened, when, by whom, with what output. The pillar dashboard shows completion rates per pillar, overdue counts, individual process status. The registered manager's job stops being "remember everything" and starts being "review the dashboard."

  • 5 pillars — Commercial Growth, Operations & Safeguarding, Workforce & HR, Property & Infrastructure, Finance & Performance
  • 5 frequencies — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, ad hoc. Every process labelled by cadence with last-run and due-date timestamps.
  • Named ownership — every process has a human accountable. No orphan tasks.
  • Compliance scoring — pillar-level visibility for board, commissioners, and inspectors
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When CIW visits

One-click compliance audit pack. Inspector-ready PDF.

When the inspector arrives, the audit pack is one click. Full PDF export of every process run in the period, every owner, every timestamp, every evidence artefact. Customisable per regulatory framework — CIW supported accommodation standards, Ofsted supported accommodation framework, ICO accountability evidence, Cyber Essentials.

Birdie generates monthly reports. TIFA Connect generates the entire evidence archive. Continuous, not reactive. Evidence accrues as a by-product of operations, not reconstructed from scattered sources under inspection pressure.

  • Framework-mapped — CIW, Ofsted, ICO, Cyber Essentials. No competitor maps to UK supported accommodation standards specifically.
  • One-click export — full evidence pack for the inspection period
  • Date-range scoped — last quarter, last year, since last inspection — whatever the inspector needs
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Inside the library

Every process you should be running. Pre-built.

1

Commercial Growth

Bid pipeline, commissioner relationships, framework rate uplifts, contract renewals.

  • Weekly pipeline review
  • Monthly commissioner relationship log
  • Quarterly bid pipeline review
  • Annual framework rate uplift assessment
2

Operations & Safeguarding

Daily safety, weekly oversight, monthly governance, quarterly review.

  • Daily welfare check completion
  • Weekly incident review
  • Monthly safeguarding case audit
  • Quarterly serious incident review
3

Workforce & HR

Staff lifecycle, qualifications, training, supervisions.

  • Monthly DBS expiry check
  • Quarterly supervision audit
  • Annual qualification refresh review
  • Probation completion tracking
4

Property & Infrastructure

Property compliance, maintenance, tenancy, registration.

  • Quarterly fire risk assessment review
  • Annual gas safety renewal
  • Monthly maintenance backlog review
  • Property registration status check
5

Finance & Performance

Placement P&L, cash flow, fee variations, agency cost.

  • Monthly placement P&L reconciliation
  • Weekly outstanding receivables review
  • Monthly agency cost trend
  • Quarterly fee benchmark review
How this compares

What the alternatives don't do.

Birdie
  • Generic compliance modules built for domiciliary care
  • No supported accommodation framework mapping
  • Monthly inspection-style reports, not continuous evidence
Care Vision
  • Built for residential care home compliance
  • Doesn't map to supported accommodation regulatory reality
Generic GRC tools (Vanta, Drata)
  • Built for cyber security and SOC 2
  • No care-sector framework knowledge
  • No operational data integration

Process Library doesn't exist as a standalone product elsewhere. Birdie has compliance reporting. Generic GRC tools have process tracking. Neither maps to supported accommodation regulatory reality, integrates with operational data, or generates inspection-ready evidence as a by-product of running the service.

What's included in each tier

Process Library ships with Growth. AI co-pilots with Pro.

Core

£299 / month flat
Up to 20 young people
Policy register & complaints log only

Core handles document storage and complaint logging. The full Process Library becomes worth the investment from Growth onwards.

Upgrade to Growth →

Pro

£14 / YP / month
£599 / month minimum
Full library + AI Governance Co-pilots

Continuous gap analysis, inspection readiness scoring, pattern detection in complaints, AI cross-referencing, full audit evidence pack export.

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Want to see the Process Library in action?

Michael Border runs platform demos personally. 30 minutes, real product, real Q&A.