SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?72%Good
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Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Infection prevention and controlGood
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe environmentsGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
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?70%Good
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Workforce wellbeing and enablementSome shortfalls
Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?71%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuitySome shortfalls
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
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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Freedom to speak upSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Shared direction and cultureSome shortfalls
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionSome shortfalls
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersGood
Partnerships and communitiesGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 25 good, 8 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. ?
York House is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 11 other homes in Kirklees.
78% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Run by Highgate Care Services (Yorkshire) LTD, York House is a residential care home in Dewsbury, Kirklees with 36 registered beds. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and younger adults. Most homes in Kirklees are smaller: the median there is 23 beds.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in August 2025. It was Good for safe, effective, caring and responsive as well. For well-led, the rating was Requires improvement. That is up from Requires improvement in November 2019. That is more recent than most ratings in Kirklees, where the typical rating is about 4 years old. 8 of its 33 scored standards were below good, including “workforce wellbeing and enablement”.
Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in May 2025. That is true of 79% of homes in Kirklees. Across Kirklees, 78% of rated homes are Good or Outstanding, against 82% for England. None of the 6 nearest rated homes has a higher rating. Highgate Care Services (Yorkshire) LTD runs 7 care homes, and 4 of the 7 rated are Good or Outstanding.
