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?Requires improvement
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. ?
The Grove -6 is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 14 other homes in Central Bedfordshire.
72% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
The Grove -6 is one of 64 care homes in Central Bedfordshire: a 7-bed residential care home in Bedford, run by MacIntyre Care. Its CQC registration covers people with a learning disability or autism. It is a small home for Central Bedfordshire, where the median is 24 beds.
The Grove -2, 0.0 km away, is the closest home rated Good. MacIntyre Care runs 16 care homes, and 15 of the 16 rated are Good or Outstanding. Across Central Bedfordshire, 72% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England.
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in March 2020. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. That matches its previous rating, from February 2019. The rating is more than 5 years old. In Central Bedfordshire, 44% of ratings are that old (see how rating age varies by council).
