SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?58%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?57%Requires improvement
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Planning for the futureGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?54%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSignificant shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 14 good, 19 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
CQC hasn't inspected this home for more than 5 years. It re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating doesn't count against a home on this site, but it may not reflect the home today. ?
CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?
Aran Court Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 54 other homes in Birmingham.
77% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Avery Homes (Nelson) Limited, Aran Court Care Home is a nursing home in Birmingham with 86 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in Birmingham are smaller: the median there is 16 beds.
St. Giles Care Home, 0.1 km away, is the closest home rated Good. There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. It is one of 17 homes run by Avery Homes (Nelson) Limited. 14 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from May 2025. 86% of homes in Birmingham also score 5. In Birmingham, 77% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).
CQC last rated the home in September 2024, giving it Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe, effective, responsive and well-led as well. CQC rated caring as Good. Its rating before that, in August 2021, was the same. That is more recent than most ratings in Birmingham, where the typical rating is about 7 years old. 19 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “governance, management and sustainability”.
