SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?75%Good
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Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
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?75%Good
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Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?71%Good
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Learning, improvement and innovationGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 31 good, 2 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
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Little Oaks Residential Care Home is in the Good tier ?, with 124 other homes in Somerset.
89% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Mrs Parminder Degun, Little Oaks Residential Care Home is a residential care home in Taunton, Somerset with 8 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people and people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Somerset, where the typical home has 25 beds.
CQC rated it Good overall and in all five key questions in March 2025. Its rating before that, in June 2019, was the same. That is more recent than most ratings in Somerset, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. 2 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “planning for the future”.
Across Somerset, 89% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. About 0.3 km away, Halcon House is rated Outstanding. Mrs Parminder Degun runs 2 care homes, and all 2 rated are Good or Outstanding.
