Residential care home · Wokingham

Rookery Cottage

249 Shinfield Road, Reading, RG2 8HE

Good Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good Rated 5 years ago

CQC rating

Good
Published 7 August 2021 Rated 5 years ago ?
  • SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Good
  • EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
  • 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. ?

Earlier ratings ?

  • December 2017GoodSECRW
  • October 2015GoodSECRW

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How it compares in Wokingham

Rookery Cottage is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 6 other homes in Wokingham. 93% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 4 (9%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 1 (2%)
  • Good 27 (63%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 7 (16%)
  • Requires improvement 3 (7%)
  • Not yet rated 1 (2%)

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  • Life Care Corporation Limited
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  • Northcourt Lodge Nursing Home
    Reading · RG2 7HF · Nursing home · 22 beds1.4 km
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  • 1 Longmore Road
    Reading, Wokingham · RG2 8QG · Residential care home · 7 beds1.6 km
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  • 188 Whitley Wood Lane Respite Care
    Reading · RG2 8PR · Residential care home · 6 beds1.6 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 8 years ago
  • Multicare-Reading
    Reading, Wokingham · RG2 8PY · Residential care home · 4 beds1.8 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 8 years ago
  • Magnolia Lodge
    Shinfield, Wokingham · RG2 9BT · Residential care home · 10 beds1.8 km
    Good S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: GoodW: Good Rated 7 years ago

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Other homes run by Voyage 1 Limited

241 care homes in total: 12 Outstanding, 205 Good, 21 Requires improvement, 3 Not yet rated.

  • 1 Sheringham Avenue
    London, Enfield · N14 4UB · Residential care home · 5 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 5 months ago
  • 23 Cecil Road
    Dronfield, Derbyshire · S18 2GW · Residential care home · 6 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: OutstandingC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Good Rated this month
  • 4 Pages Orchard
    Reading, Oxfordshire · RG4 9LW · Residential care home · 3 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: OutstandingR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 7 years ago
  • Bewick House
    Darlington · DL1 3HW · Residential care home · 6 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: OutstandingC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Good Rated 6 years ago
  • Broadview
    Fareham, Hampshire · PO16 7UB · Residential care home · 6 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: GoodC: GoodR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 6 years ago
  • Derwent Cottage
    Scarborough, North Yorkshire · YO12 4RB · Residential care home · 4 beds
    Outstanding S: GoodE: OutstandingC: OutstandingR: OutstandingW: Outstanding Rated 6 years ago

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Rookery Cottage at a glance

Rookery Cottage is a 6-bed residential care home in Reading, Wokingham, run by Voyage 1 Limited. It is registered to care for younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. It is a small home for Wokingham, where the median is 16 beds.

The current CQC rating is Good, published in August 2021. Safe, caring, responsive and well-led were also Good. CQC rated effective as Requires improvement. It was also rated Good at the inspection before, in December 2017. At over 5 years old, this rating is older than most. 74% of ratings in Wokingham are as old (how rating age varies by council).

Across Wokingham, 93% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. None of the 6 nearest rated homes has a higher rating. 217 of Voyage 1 Limited’s 238 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups).