Residential care home · North Somerset

Birnbeck House - Care Home Learning Disabilities

2 St Pauls Road, Weston Super Mare, BS23 4AF

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: not ratedResponsive: not ratedWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 7 months ago No registered manager

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 31 March 2026 Rated 7 months 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?Not yet rated
  • ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Not yet rated
  • Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement

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. ?

Earlier ratings ?

  • October 2024Requires improvementSECRW
  • November 2020Inspected, no new rating
  • September 2019GoodSECRW
  • February 2017GoodSECRW

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How it compares in North Somerset

Birnbeck House - Care Home Learning Disabilities is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 4 other homes in North Somerset. 95% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Good, with Outstanding areas 2 (2%)
  • Good 67 (72%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 17 (18%)
  • Requires improvement 5 (5%)
  • Not yet rated 2 (2%)

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Care homes nearby

  • Granada House
    Weston Super Mare, North Somerset · BS23 4AB · Residential care home · 13 beds0.1 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 7 years ago
  • Quantock House
    Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset · BS23 4DN · Residential care home · 6 beds0.2 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated this month
  • Parklands Care Home
    Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset · BS23 4BP · Nursing home · 10 beds0.2 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 4 years ago
  • Oaklands Care Home
    Weston Super Mare, North Somerset · BS23 1DP · Nursing home · 10 beds0.3 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 6 years ago
  • Sunnydale Care Home
    Weston Super Mare, North Somerset · BS23 1DP · Residential care home · 10 beds0.3 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 1 month ago
  • Clevedon House
    Weston Super Mare, North Somerset · BS23 1DF · Residential care home · 11 beds0.3 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 2 years ago

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Other homes run by Leonard Cheshire Disability

34 care homes in total: 19 Good, 15 Requires improvement.

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About Birnbeck House - Care Home Learning Disabilities

Leonard Cheshire Disability runs Birnbeck House - Care Home Learning Disabilities, a residential care home in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset with room for 13 residents. Its CQC registration covers older people, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in North Somerset, where the typical home has 26 beds.

There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. The nearest home with a higher rating is Granada House (Good), 0.1 km away. It is one of 34 homes run by Leonard Cheshire Disability. 19 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. 4 other homes in North Somerset share its tier, “Requires improvement”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from December 2025. 77% of homes in North Somerset also score 5.

The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in March 2026. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. Effective was rated Good. Its rating before that, in October 2024, was the same. That is more recent than most ratings in North Somerset, where the typical rating is about 4 years old.