Together, they inspect all services and establishments in these domains that are recognised, licensed or subsidised by the department or any agency associated with it.

[2] Under the Bourgeois Government, which assumed office in 2014, the Care Inspectorate was merged with the Department of Welfare, Public Health and Family.

[2][4] Under local open records laws, anyone has a right to access the inspection reports made by the Care Inspectorate without having to give a reason.

This means the Care Inspectorate actively works to make its reports public on its website.

Aside from inspection reports, the public can also consult the results of quality assessments of hospitals that participate in the so-called Flemish Indicator Project for Patients and Professionals (shortened to VIP² in Dutch) on a separate website.