SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Good
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?★Outstanding
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. ?
The Homestead is in the Good, with Outstanding areas tier ?, with 16 other homes in Oxfordshire.
88% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
The Homestead is one of 131 care homes in Oxfordshire: a 68-bed residential care home in Carterton, run by Methodist Homes. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia and younger adults.
CQC last rated the home in January 2019, giving it Good overall. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and well-led as well. For responsive, the rating was Outstanding. Its rating before that, in July 2016, was the same. The rating is more than 5 years old. In Oxfordshire, 57% of ratings are that old (see how rating age varies by council).
60 of Methodist Homes’s 69 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). About 3.7 km away, The Cotswold is rated Outstanding. Across Oxfordshire, 88% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in January 2026. That is true of 88% of homes in Oxfordshire.
