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?Requires improvement
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. ?
Blenheim Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 56 other homes in Essex.
84% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Regal Care Trading Ltd, Blenheim Care Home is a residential care home in Walton On The Naze, Essex with 57 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. That is larger than most homes in Essex, where the typical home has 22 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from August 2021, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe, effective, responsive and well-led as well. CQC rated caring as Good. That is up from Inadequate in November 2020. At over 5 years old, this rating is older than most. 48% of ratings in Essex are as old (how rating age varies by council).
About 0.6 km away, Lodge Care Home is rated Good. 9 of Regal Care Trading Ltd’s 15 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). In Essex, 84% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from November 2025. That is true of 89% of homes in Essex.
