I’m going to guess that CQC refer’s to the United Kingdom’s Care Quality Commission, a UK government agency that monitors, inspects and regulates health and social care services. One of the areas it regulates is care homes, which I’m guessing is the category the residental home falls into. The CQC allows persons to make anonymous whistleblowing reports and also has a policy of not disclosing the identity of whistleblowers unless legally required to do so. So your employer ordinarily should not know if you made a report to the CQC. But if the employer does find out, it is not clear if UK law prohibits the employer from retaliating against you for it. I note that in the CQC whistleblowing publication there is no mention of any such prohibition and I would think if there was one the CQC would point it out to encourage whistleblowing reports. But I know little of UK law on this, and this site addresses U.S. law. So if you are in the U.K. then I suggest you find a web site that deals with U.K. legal issues for more information.

