Residential care home · Wiltshire

Ballards Ash

Brinkworth Road, Wotton Bassett, SN4 8DS

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 5 years ago

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 2 April 2021 Rated 5 years ago ?
  • SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
  • EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
  • CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
  • ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
  • Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement

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. ?

Earlier ratings ?

  • September 2020Requires improvementSECRW
  • December 2017GoodSECRW
  • December 2016Requires improvementSECRW

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How it compares in Wiltshire

Ballards Ash is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 14 other homes in Wiltshire. 90% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 3 (2%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 8 (5%)
  • Good 105 (67%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 25 (16%)
  • Requires improvement 15 (10%)
  • Not yet rated 1 (1%)

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Care homes nearby

  • Marsh Farm Manor Care Home
    Swindon, Wiltshire · SN4 8ER · Residential care home · 66 beds0.8 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 2 years ago
  • Miranda House
    Swindon, Wiltshire · SN4 7AH · Nursing home · 68 beds1.4 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated this month
  • OSJCT Ridgeway House
    Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire · SN4 7AN · Residential care home · 43 beds1.5 km
    Good S: Requires improvementE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 7 years ago
  • Bassett House
    Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire · SN4 7FJ · Nursing home · 63 beds2.4 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 11 months ago
  • Caring Hands (Wiltshire)
    Swindon, Wiltshire · SN5 0AA · Residential care home · 7 beds3.5 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: OutstandingR: GoodW: Good Rated 1 year ago
  • OSJCT The Cedars
    Purton, Wiltshire · SN5 4AF · Residential care home · 49 beds3.9 km
    Good S: GoodE: Requires improvementC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 7 years ago

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Other homes run by Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited

65 care homes in total: 8 Outstanding, 52 Good, 5 Requires improvement.

  • Argyll House
    Swindon · SN2 7AS · Residential care home · 5 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 8 years ago
  • Bramerton
    Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead · SL6 2DB · Residential care home · 11 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 7 years ago
  • Fountain View
    Southampton, Hampshire · SO32 1JD · Residential care home · 6 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 8 years ago
  • Fritham Lodge
    Southampton · SO16 4FU · Residential care home · 13 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: OutstandingR: OutstandingW: Good Rated 8 years ago
  • Heronsmede
    Old Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead · SL4 2RX · Residential care home · 8 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: OutstandingC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Good Rated 7 years ago
  • Hurst House
    Swindon · SN25 3BY · Residential care home · 10 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: OutstandingR: OutstandingW: Good Rated 6 years ago

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Ballards Ash at a glance

Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited runs Ballards Ash, a residential care home in Wotton Bassett, Wiltshire with room for 10 residents. CQC registers it to look after people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Wiltshire, where the typical home has 21 beds.

The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in April 2021. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. Effective, caring and responsive were rated Good. Its rating before that, in September 2020, was the same. CQC hasn't re-rated the home for over 5 years, like 40% of homes in Wiltshire. Here is how rating age varies by council.

Across Wiltshire, 90% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. 60 of Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Limited’s 65 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). Marsh Farm Manor Care Home, 0.8 km away, is the closest home rated Good.