GoodSafe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: GoodRated 3 years ago↑ Up from Req. improvementNew owner since October 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Good
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?Requires improvement
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Good
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. ?
The home changed owner in October 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
Birchfield Residential Care Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 1 other home in Blackburn with Darwen.
81% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Birchfield Residential Care Home is a 24-bed residential care home in Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. The home is its own registered provider. Its CQC registration covers older people.
Across Blackburn with Darwen, 81% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 3 out of 5 in September 2026. In Blackburn with Darwen, 77% of homes score 5. Birchfield Residential Care Home Limited has run the home since October 2025, when it changed owner. Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it.
CQC last rated the home in March 2023, giving it Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and well-led as well. Responsive was rated Requires improvement. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. That is up from Requires improvement in August 2019.
