Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 1 year ago↓ Down from GoodNew owner since March 2024
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?53%Requires improvement
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Safe and effective staffingSignificant shortfalls
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 environmentsGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?50%Requires improvement
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Assessing needsSome shortfalls
Consent to care and treatmentSome shortfalls
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentSome shortfalls
How staff, teams and services work togetherSome shortfalls
Monitoring and improving outcomesSome shortfalls
Supporting people to live healthier livesSome shortfalls
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?50%Requires improvement
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Independence, choice and controlSome shortfalls
Kindness, compassion and dignitySome shortfalls
Responding to people's immediate needsSome shortfalls
Treating people as individualsSome shortfalls
Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?68%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Person-centred careSome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?57%Requires improvement
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Governance, management and sustainabilitySignificant shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Freedom to speak upGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 10 good, 23 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. ?
The New Wycliffe Home is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 17 other homes in Leicester.
80% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
The New Wycliffe Home is one of 99 care homes in Leicester: a 49-bed residential care home in Leicester, run by S6 Care Ltd. It is registered to care for older people, people with dementia, younger adults, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment. Most homes in Leicester are smaller: the median there is 25 beds.
Across Leicester, 80% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in May 2026. 95% of homes in Leicester also score 5. S6 Care Ltd has run the home since March 2024, when it changed owner. Rushey Mead Manor Care and Nursing Home, 0.3 km away, is the closest home rated Good.
CQC's latest rating, from September 2025, is Requires improvement overall. It was Requires improvement for safe, effective, caring and well-led as well. For responsive, the rating was Good. That is down from Good in June 2018. That is more recent than most ratings in Leicester, where the typical rating is about 3 years old. CQC found significant shortfalls in “safe and effective staffing”, one of 23 standards out of 33 scored below good.
