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Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency

The Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency is the independent body responsible for managing the accreditation and ongoing supervision of Australian Government funded aged care homes.

The core functions of the Agency are to:

• manage the residential aged care accreditation process using the Accreditation Standards
• promote high quality care and assist industry to improve service quality by identifying best practice, and providing information, education and training
• assess and strategically manage services working towards accreditation
• liaise with the Department of Health and Ageing about services that do not comply with the relevant standards.