Cedar Lawn rated lone ‘Outstanding’ property in latest regional inspections

Cedar Lawn, a Stratford-Upon-Avon care home run by Methodist Homes, has been named the sole ‘Outstanding’ care home among 110 Central region properties reviewed by the Care Quality Commission.

Of the 110 reports it published on adult social care services this week, CQC inspectors rated 75 care homes and homecare agencies as ‘Good’, 29 as ‘Requires Improvement’ and five as ‘Inadequate’.

Cedar Lawn was the only venue to score an ‘Outstanding’ mark. The care home was built in 1970 by EK Youell of Stratford, and opened in association with the Sheldon Trust.

In 1997, an extension was added, gifted by the Youell Foundation in memory of the home’s founder and of his son-in-law, Roy Bamford. Mr Youell had managed the home himself for its first five years but passed it over to MHA in 1975.

Under CQC’s new programme of inspections, all of England’s adult social care services are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.

Sue Howard, deputy chief inspector for adult social care in the Central region, said: “People are entitled to services which provide safe, effective, compassionate and high quality care. If that is what we find on inspection – we give the service a rating of Good, or Outstanding.

“Where we find that services are not good enough, we will give a rating of Requires Improvement or Inadequate. If we find that a service requires improvement, we will expect them to provide us with a full plan setting out how they will address the issue.”

Links to all 110 of the CQC’s latest Central region reports can be found below.