SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Good
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?75%Good
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Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
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?71%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?61%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 23 good, 10 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
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Little Acre Care Home is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 4 other homes in Cumberland.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Little Acre Care Home is a 14-bed residential care home in Wigton, Cumberland, run by Mrs Manju Peter. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults. That is smaller than most homes in Cumberland, where the typical home has 25 beds.
CQC's latest rating, from June 2025, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. Its rating before that, in August 2022, was the same. That is more recent than most ratings in Cumberland, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. CQC found some shortfalls in “workforce wellbeing and enablement”, one of 10 standards out of 33 scored below good.
About 2.2 km away, Silloth Nursing and Residential Care Home is rated Outstanding. 4 other homes in Cumberland share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from February 2026. That is true of 90% of homes in Cumberland.
