SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Safe and effective staffingSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Medicines optimisationGood
Safe environmentsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?58%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?55%Requires improvement
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Independence, choice and controlSome shortfalls
Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?57%Requires improvement
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Equity in accessSome shortfalls
Equity in experiences and outcomesSome shortfalls
Listening to and involving peopleSome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?54%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 9 good, 24 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. ?
New Partnerships Lynray and Peach Cottage is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 56 other homes in Essex.
84% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
What the data says about New Partnerships Lynray and Peach Cottage
Run by Achieve Together Limited, New Partnerships Lynray and Peach Cottage is a residential care home in Braintree, Essex with 6 registered beds. It is registered to care for younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Essex, where the typical home has 22 beds.
CQC rated it Requires improvement overall and in all five key questions in October 2025. It was also rated Requires improvement at the inspection before, in August 2022. That is more recent than most ratings in Essex, where the typical rating is about 5 years old. CQC found some shortfalls in “independence, choice and control”, one of 24 standards out of 33 scored below good.
56 other homes in Essex share its tier, “Requires improvement”. CQC's register shows no registered manager at the moment. Achieve Together Limited runs 139 care homes, and 115 of the 138 rated are Good or Outstanding. Meadows, 0.3 km away, is the closest home rated Good.
