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What the CQC found at Hawthorns Lodge

Requires improvementpublished 6 April 2024, 2 years ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the home was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The five questions inspectors ask
Safe?
Requires improvement
Are people protected from harm? Staffing, medicines, infection control, safeguarding.
Effective?
Good
Does the care work? Training, consent, food and drink, working with GPs and nurses.
Caring?
Good
Are people treated with kindness and dignity?
Responsive?
Requires improvement
Is care built around the person? Care plans, activities, complaints.
Well-led?
Requires improvement
Is the home run well? The manager, the culture, how problems get found and fixed.
The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Hawthorns Lodge.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Hawthorns Lodge

4 rated inspections over 8 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Requires improvement.

  1. April 2024Requires improvementcurrent ratingdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  2. December 2023Good
    Safe: GoodWell-led: Good
  3. December 2020Inspected but not rated
    Safe: Inspected but not rated
  4. June 2018Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  5. February 2016Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  6. November 2025

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 28 November 2025.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0. A home can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections.

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31 live-in carers within about an hour of Redcar and Cleveland

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Most charge £980 to £1,280 a week. 29 can care for a couple. 9 years' experience on average.

Peckson A.
1 review
From £1,316 a week, 1 year caring
Based about 23 minutes from Redcar and Cleveland. Can care for a couple
Maggie S.
2 reviews
From £1,015 a week, 15 years caring
Based about 23 minutes from Redcar and Cleveland. Can care for a couple
Ble Bernard W.
1 review
From £1,309 a week, 6 years caring
Based about 30 minutes from Redcar and Cleveland. Can care for a couple
Vetakumisa K.
2 reviews
From £1,096 a week, 5 years caring
Based about 47 minutes from Redcar and Cleveland. Can care for a couple
“I found Alison to be kind , caring helpful concencious... Alison has a heart of gold”
Roy A., about Alison G.
“Petty introduced herself to Mum every time she was caring for her and responded very quickly to Mum if she was distressed in the night.”
Judith W., about Petty Tutsirai C.
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