SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?56%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?54%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
Consent to care and treatmentGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?65%Good
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Treating people as individualsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?57%Requires improvement
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in accessSome shortfalls
Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Providing InformationSome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
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
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 10 good, 23 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. ?
CQC's register shows no registered manager for this home. Every care home must have one. The home may be recruiting, or a new manager may be applying to CQC. ?
Meadow Court Residential Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 25 other homes in Kirklees.
78% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Meadow Court Residential Home is a 37-bed residential care home in Huddersfield, Kirklees. The home is its own registered provider. CQC registers it to look after older people. The typical home in Kirklees has 23 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in October 2025. Safe, effective, responsive and well-led were also Requires improvement. For caring, the rating was Good. Its previous rating, in January 2019, was Good, so the home has slipped. The typical rating in Kirklees is about 4 years old, so this one is fairly recent. 23 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “treating people as individuals”.
CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. The nearest home with a higher rating is Colne House (Good), 0.5 km away. 25 other homes in Kirklees share its tier, “Requires improvement”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from June 2025. That is true of 79% of homes in Kirklees.
