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What the CQC found at Leighton Forest

Requires improvementpublished 14 July 2025, 14 months ago

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

The report

We have not explained this report yet

The CQC has not yet published an inspection report for Leighton Forest.

The story over the years

Every inspection of Leighton Forest

10 rated inspections over 9 years: the service has slipped, from Good to Inadequate.

  1. October 2023Inadequatecurrent ratingstayed Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: InadequateResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
  2. October 2023Inadequatestayed Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate
  3. September 2021Inadequatedown from Good
    Safe: InadequateResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
  4. January 2018Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  5. July 2017Requires improvementup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Requires improvement
  6. May 2017Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate
  7. October 2016Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  8. May 2015Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Inspected but not ratedCaring: Inspected but not ratedResponsive: Inspected but not ratedWell-led: Inspected but not rated
  9. March 2015Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  10. October 2023

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 19 October 2023.

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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Based about 26 minutes from Central Bedfordshire. Can care for a couple
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