Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 1 year ago↑ Up from Inadequate
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?59%Requires improvement
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Involving people to manage risksSome shortfalls
Learning cultureSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsSome shortfalls
SafeguardingSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?75%Good
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Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?75%Good
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Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Planning for the futureSome shortfalls
Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?61%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
Freedom to speak upGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 23 good, 10 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. ?
Roop Cottage Residential Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 18 other homes in Wakefield.
75% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Roop Cottage Residential Home is one of 96 care homes in Wakefield: a 35-bed residential care home in Pontefract, run by SNSB Limited. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability, people with a learning disability or autism, people with mental health needs, people with a sensory impairment and people who use drugs or alcohol. 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 February 2026. 88% of homes in Wakefield also score 5. 18 other homes in Wakefield share its tier, “Requires improvement”. The nearest home with a higher rating is Victoria House (Good), 2.7 km away.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in November 2024. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. CQC rated effective, caring and responsive as Good. Before that, in March 2024, it was rated Inadequate. That is more recent than most ratings in Wakefield, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. CQC found some shortfalls in “planning for the future”, one of 10 standards out of 33 scored below good.
