Brolly Consultancy

The platform comes with people.

Two senior practitioners. Over fifty years of care between them. Working alongside your service to turn Brolly from a tool into a transformation.

Why people, not just software

Software alone doesn't change a service.

Most providers buy a tool and hope adoption follows. It rarely does. Rotas drift back to spreadsheets, eMAR runs alongside paper for months, and the registered manager spends Sunday night drafting the PIR they should have been drafting all year.

Brolly comes with the senior practitioners who've actually turned services around. Dawn and Jodie sit with your team while change happens, not in a webinar two weeks before go-live, but on the ground, in the team meeting, in the inspection rehearsal. The software gets used because the people who know how to use it are right there with you.

50+
years of care between them
80
services led to inspection
12
CQC inspections with Outstanding Rating
4
Requires Improvement → Good turnarounds
Meet the team

Two practitioners. Forty years of care behind them.

Real operators who've sat on both sides of the inspection table, and led real services through transformation.

Dawn Hartley
DH
Dawn Hartley
Director of Compliance & Quality
Ex-CQC Inspector 22 years

“If your evidence isn't where the inspector looks, it doesn't exist. My job is to make sure it is, and that you can find it before they ask.”

Dawn spent twelve years as a CQC inspector before moving into provider-side advisory work. She's led inspection prep for over 80 services across domiciliary, residential and supported living, moving Requires Improvement ratings to Good, and Good to Outstanding.

Ask me about
Mock inspections PIR strategy Section 31 response
Specialisms
  • Mock inspections against the Single Assessment Framework
  • Provider Information Return strategy and review
  • Quality statement evidence mapping and gap analysis
  • Registered Manager mentoring and Nominated Individual support
  • Section 31 and enforcement response advisory
Jodie Baird
JB
Jodie Baird
Director of Transformation & AI
Care Operator 20 years

“AI doesn't change a service. People do. My job is to make sure your team uses it, not just licenses it.”

Jodie ran a multi-site domiciliary care group for fourteen years before moving into care technology. She's led AI adoption programmes for providers ranging from 30-staff family businesses to 800-staff regional groups, and knows what actually changes on the ground.

Ask me about
AI rollout Rota redesign Multi-site harmonisation
Specialisms
  • AI adoption strategy and staff change management
  • Operational redesign, rota, scheduling and resource optimisation
  • Multi-site rollouts and policy harmonisation
  • Carer recruitment, retention and PA matching workflows
  • Local authority and ICB tendering and contract preparation
How we work

Four steps. No template.

Every engagement is shaped around your service, but they all follow the same rhythm.

1
Week 1

Listen

On-site visit. Time with the registered manager, coordinators, frontline carers and at least one client or family. We map what's actually happening, not what the policy says is happening.

2
Weeks 2–3

Diagnose

Quality statement gap analysis. Operational efficiency benchmark. Honest written report with prioritised actions, not a 60-page deck nobody reads.

3
Weeks 4–6

Co-design

We sit alongside your team to redesign the workflows that need it. Brolly is configured against your service, not a generic template. Staff are trained where they work.

4
Week 7+

Stand alongside

Adoption tracking, weekly check-ins, mock inspection at the right moment. We don't disappear at go-live. We stay until your team is running it without us.

Three engagement types

However deep you need to go.

From a one-off readiness assessment to a months-long transformation programme, shaped around your service, not a template.

Discover
Readiness assessment
2 weeks

Two-week diagnostic of your service. Where you stand against CQC's framework, where AI can move the needle, what to fix first.

Includes
  • On-site visit and stakeholder interviews
  • Quality statement gap analysis
  • Operational efficiency benchmark
  • Written report with prioritised actions
  • 90-minute findings presentation
Excel
Ongoing partnership
Ongoing retainer

Retained advisory relationship. Senior input on call when it matters: inspection prep, expansion, enforcement, strategy.

Includes
  • Monthly strategy session
  • Quarterly mock inspection
  • Direct line to Dawn and Jodie
  • Tender and bid review support
  • New regulation briefings
  • Priority response to enforcement
The difference

Going it alone vs going with Dawn & Jodie.

What changes when you have senior practitioners standing alongside your team.

Going it alone
  • PIR is a Sunday-night job the registered manager dreads
  • Inspection prep starts when the call comes in
  • Adoption stalls because nobody's there to coach the carers through it
  • If enforcement lands, you're finding a consultant in a hurry
  • Tender writing is squeezed into evenings after operational fires
  • You learn what good looks like after the inspection report
With Dawn & Jodie
  • PIR is drafted alongside an ex-inspector who's read hundreds
  • Inspection prep is baked in from week one
  • Adoption sticks because Jodie's on the floor with your team
  • If enforcement lands, you're already on the phone with the people who handle it weekly
  • Tenders are reviewed by people who've won them
  • You know what good looks like before the inspector walks in

The bottom line: You're not buying advice. You're hiring two people who've already walked the road you're on.

What providers say

Real services. Real outcomes.

Here's what working with Dawn and Jodie looks like, in the words of the registered managers and owners they've stood alongside.

We'd been stuck on Requires Improvement for two years. Dawn looked at our PIR draft, told us straight what was missing, and rewrote the framing in an afternoon. Twelve weeks later we were Good across the board.

Sarah M.
Registered Manager, residential care home, Yorkshire
RI → Good in 14 weeks

We had three platforms, four logins and a recruitment spreadsheet. Jodie sat with us for six weeks and rebuilt our operating model around Brolly. Our coordinators got a day a week back. The carers actually use the app.

Mark T.
Owner, multi-site domiciliary group, North West
1 day/week saved per coordinator

Section 31 letter on a Friday. Dawn was on-site Monday morning. The fact she'd been on the other side of the table is the only reason we kept registration. Worth the retainer ten times over.

Priya K.
Nominated Individual, supported living provider, Midlands
Registration retained
What you take away

Outcomes, not deliverables.

An inspection-ready service

Evidence mapped, policies current, staff confident. When CQC arrives, you're already prepared.

AI that's actually adopted

Tools that staff use, not licences that gather dust. Change management built into every engagement.

Manager time given back

Operational redesign that takes weeks of admin out of your registered manager's calendar.

A clearer growth path

From a single Good rating to a multi-site Outstanding group. We've walked the road with providers like you.

Frequently asked

The questions every owner asks first.

Honest answers to the things that come up on every discovery call.

Do I have to be a Brolly software customer to work with Dawn and Jodie?
No. Roughly half our consultancy clients aren't on Brolly software at all. The work stands on its own: inspection prep, AI adoption, multi-site harmonisation, tender review. If Brolly turns out to be the right tool for you afterwards, we'll say so. If it isn't, we'll say that too.
Is the work remote, on-site, or both?
Both. Discovery and Transform engagements always include on-site time. There are things you only see standing in the staff room. Ongoing partnerships run mostly remotely with quarterly on-site days. We work UK-wide.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on service size, number of sites, and engagement type. We'll give you a fixed quote within 48 hours of the discovery call, no estimates that move during the project, no day-rate clocks running on email replies. Compared to the cost of an enforcement action or a recruitment campaign, it's a small bet on getting things right first time.
Who actually shows up: Dawn and Jodie, or someone else?
Dawn and Jodie. Every engagement, personally. We don't sub out to associates and we don't grow by adding bodies. If the calendar can't accommodate, we tell you when it can. We don't hand you off.
What if we're already in special measures or have an open enforcement notice?
That's exactly when we're most useful. Dawn has led responses to Section 31 notices, conditional registration challenges and full enforcement action. The first call is always free and we move quickly. These situations don't wait.
What's the notice period on the Ongoing partnership?
30 days, either side. We'd rather you stay because we're useful, not because the contract makes leaving painful. Most retainer clients have been with us for over two years.

Start with a 30-minute conversation.

No prep needed. Tell us where your service is, where you want it to be, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.

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