Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 3 years ago↓ Down from GoodNo registered managerNew owner since February 2024
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
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. ?
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. ?
The home changed owner in February 2024. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
Blackwood Residential Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 34 other homes in Cornwall.
81% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Sanctuary Care Limited runs Blackwood Residential Care Home, a residential care home in Camborne, Cornwall with room for 47 residents. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with mental health needs. The typical home in Cornwall has 22 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
Sanctuary Care Limited has run the home since February 2024, when it changed owner. It is one of 84 homes run by Sanctuary Care Limited. 79 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. Fairholme Nursing Home, 0.1 km away, is the closest home rated Good. There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. Across Cornwall, 81% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from September 2026. 87% of homes in Cornwall also score 5.
CQC's latest rating, from November 2022, is Requires improvement overall. Safe, effective and well-led were also Requires improvement. Caring and responsive were rated Good. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. Its previous rating, in March 2019, was Good, so the home has slipped.
