SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?69%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?71%Good
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How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?64%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Governance, management and sustainabilityGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 24 good, 9 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
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. ?
Buckingham Care Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 10 other homes in Barnsley.
82% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Buckingham Care Home is one of 71 care homes in Barnsley: a 72-bed residential care home in Sheffield, run by Crown Care IV Limited. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia, younger adults and people with a physical disability. That is larger than most homes in Barnsley, where the typical home has 33 beds.
Crown Care IV Limited runs 6 care homes, and 3 of the 6 rated are Good or Outstanding. About 4.3 km away, Hoylands House is rated Good. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 4 (good), from September 2026. In Barnsley, 80% of homes score 5. Across Barnsley, 82% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in April 2024. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. Its rating before that, in May 2023, was the same. Of the 33 standards CQC scored, 9 fell below good. The lowest was “workforce wellbeing and enablement” (some shortfalls).
