SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?62%Good
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Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
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?70%Good
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Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?75%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
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?57%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
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
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. ?
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. ?
Maple Manor is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 47 other homes in Essex.
84% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Maple Manor is one of 395 care homes in Essex: a 5-bed residential care home in Colchester, run by Maple Health UK Limited. It is registered to care for people with a learning disability or autism. It is a small home for Essex, where the median is 22 beds.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in November 2025. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and responsive as well. For well-led, the rating was Requires improvement. Before that, in December 2023, it was rated Requires improvement. The typical rating in Essex is about 5 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found some shortfalls in “kindness, compassion and dignity”, one of 10 standards out of 33 scored below good.
It is one of 5 homes run by Maple Health UK Limited. 4 of those with a rating are Good or Outstanding. None of the 5 nearest rated homes has a higher rating. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from August 2026. That is true of 89% of homes in Essex. In Essex, 84% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).
