SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Good
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. ?
Merlin's Barrow is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 24 other homes in Wiltshire.
90% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Innovations Wiltshire Limited, Merlin's Barrow is a residential care home in Marlborough, Wiltshire with 4 registered beds. It is registered to care for people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Wiltshire, where the typical home has 21 beds.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in July 2018. It was Good for effective, caring, responsive and well-led as well. For safe, the rating was Requires improvement. That matches its previous rating, from March 2016. The rating is more than 5 years old. In Wiltshire, 40% of ratings are that old (see how rating age varies by council).
In Wiltshire, 90% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). Innovations Wiltshire Limited runs 7 care homes, and all 7 rated are Good or Outstanding. None of the 6 nearest rated homes has a higher rating.
