InadequateSafe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: InadequateWell-led: InadequateRated 2 years ago↓ Down from Req. improvementNo registered managerNew owner since September 2025
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Inadequate
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Requires improvement
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Inadequate
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Inadequate
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. ?
The home changed owner in September 2025. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
Riverdale Court Care Home Ltd is in the Inadequate tier ?, with 2 other homes in Wakefield.
75% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Riverdale Care Home Ltd runs Riverdale Court Care Home Ltd, a nursing home in Pontefract, Wakefield with room for 94 residents. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with mental health needs and people with a sensory impairment. The typical home in Wakefield has 22 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in April 2026. 88% of homes in Wakefield also score 5. In Wakefield, 75% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%). There is no registered manager on CQC's register right now. Hemsworth Park, 1.9 km away, is the closest home rated Requires improvement. Riverdale Care Home Ltd has run the home since September 2025, when it changed owner.
The current CQC rating is Inadequate, published in March 2024. Safe, responsive and well-led were also Inadequate. For effective and caring, the rating was Requires improvement. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. That is down from Requires improvement in March 2023.
