Rated Care Homes

Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities

RI

Requires improvement

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Rating from the Care Quality Commission.

At a glance

  • 4 ratings

    First rated Good in 2016, most recently Requires improvement in July 2025.

  • 15 months

    since the latest rating was published.

  • 47 of 309

    rated care homes in West Sussex are rated Requires improvement, like this one.

Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities: inspection record

Care home, 10 beds, West Sussex

Rated Requires improvement in July 2025.

Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities: inspection record: inspection ratings by year, 2015 to 2026
201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Overall
Safe
Effective
Caring
Responsive
Well-led

Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.

Compare nearby

Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: White Pearl Residential Care (Good, 0.1 miles away) and The New Grange Care Home Limited (Good, 0.2 miles away).

Nearest care homes:

  1. G
    White Pearl Residential Care Good, 0.1 miles away
  2. G
    The New Grange Care Home Limited Good, 0.2 miles away
  3. G
    Warwick House Good, 0.3 miles away
  4. G
    York Lodge Good, 0.3 miles away
  5. RI
    Baytree House Requires improvement, 0.4 miles away

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What inspectors found

From the Care Quality Commission's assessment published 8 July 2025 (assessment visit 14 May 2025). Quoted under the Open Government Licence.

Date of Assessment: 15 May to 20 May 2025. We assessed a small number of quality statements from the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions and found areas of good practice and some concerns. The scores for these areas have been combined with scores based on the key question ratings from the last inspection.

  • Safe Good
  • Effective No rating
  • Caring Good
  • Responsive Good
  • Well-led No rating
Read the rest of CQC's summary

Though the assessment of these five key questions indicated some areas of concern as well as good practice since the last inspection, our overall rating remains requires improvement.

The assessment was undertaken to review compliance with 3 Warning Notices issued in February 2025 in relation to person-centred care, safe care and treatment and good governance. The service is a residential care home providing support to people living with physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities and autistic people.

We assessed the service against ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ guidance to make judgements about whether the provider guaranteed people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted.

Improvements have been made since the last assessment, but these need to be embedded and sustained to ensure people receive a good standard of care. This is a continuing breach of regulation in relation to good governance. The last manager had implemented some new auditing systems to measure and monitor the care overall. The new manager had only been in post a few weeks at the time of this assessment, and needed to familiarise themselves fully with people’s care plans, as well as the new systems that had been put into effect.

Incidents were reported and managed well to protect people from harm. Recruitment systems were effective in ensuring new staff were suitable and safe to work in a care setting. There were sufficient staff to meet people’s care and support needs. Before people came to live at the home, their care and support needs were assessed to ensure these could be met appropriately. Consent to care and treatment was gained lawfully, although an application for 1 person’s Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards could not be found. The provider was contacting the local authority to find out how the application was progressing.

We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to the concerns found at this assessment.

  1. Safe

    Good

    Safe – this means we looked for evidence that people were protected from abuse and avoidable harm.

    At our last assessment, we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment the rating has remained requires improvement. This meant some aspects of the service were not always safe and there was limited assurance about safety. There was an increased risk people could be harmed.

    We reviewed 3 quality statements under this key question. Whilst improvements have been made, these need to be sustained and embedded, to ensure people’s safety was maintained over time.

  2. Effective

    No rating

    Effective – this means we looked for evidence that people’s care, treatment and support achieved good outcomes and promoted a good quality of life, based on best available evidence.

    At our last assessment we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment the rating has remained the same. This meant the effectiveness of people’s care and support did not always achieve good outcomes or was inconsistent.

    We reviewed 2 quality statements under this key question. Whilst improvements have been made, these need to be sustained and embedded, to ensure people receive a consistent level of good care and support over time.

  3. Caring

    Good

    This means we looked for evidence that the provider involved people and treated them with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.

    At our last assessment we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment the rating has remained the same. This meant people did not always feel well-supported, cared for or treated with dignity and respect.

    We reviewed 1 quality statement under this key question. Whilst improvements have been made, these need to be sustained and embedded, to ensure people continue to receive a consistent standard of care.

  4. Responsive

    Good

    Responsive – this means we looked for evidence that the provider met people’s needs.

    At our last assessment we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment the rating has remained the same. This meant people’s needs were not always met.

    We reviewed 1 quality statement under this key question. Whilst improvements have been made, newly implemented systems need to be sustained and embedded, to ensure people continue to have their needs met consistently well.

  5. Well-led

    No rating

    Well led – this means we looked for evidence that service leadership, management and governance assured high-quality, person-centred care; supported learning and innovation and promoted an open, fair culture.

    At our last assessment we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment the rating has remained the same. This meant the management and leadership was inconsistent. Leaders and the culture they created did not always support the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care.

    We reviewed 1 quality statement under this key question.

Questions to ask when you visit

  1. Effective was rated Requires improvement on 8 July 2025. Ask about staff training and how health appointments are arranged.
  2. Well-led was rated Requires improvement on 8 July 2025. Ask about changes in management and what has changed since the report.
  3. Ask to see the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report and what the home did about any points in it.

Registration details

Registered with the CQC since
What it provides
Care home service without nursing
Who it supports
Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder, Older People, Physical Disability, Younger Adults

Inspection report

Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)

7 inspection reports, latest 23 November 2023. Latest assessment published 8 July 2025; the Care Quality Commission's newer assessments are published on its website rather than as reports.

The rating is the Care Quality Commission's. We show it as published and do not change it.

Who runs it

Provider
Leonard Cheshire DisabilityBrand: Leonard Cheshire Disability
Ownership type
Organisation
Companies House number
00552847 (opens Companies House)
Charity number
218186

Leonard Cheshire Disability runs 41 services in England, 12 of them in the South East. 25 are rated Good or Outstanding, 14 are rated Requires improvement or Inadequate and 2 have no rating yet.

Other services run by Leonard Cheshire Disability

  1. G
    Appley Cliff - Care Home Physical Disabilities Good. Care home, Isle of Wight
  2. G
    Athol House - Care Home Physical Disabilities Good. Care home, Southwark, London
  3. G
    Bells Piece Supported Living Service Good. Home care, Surrey
  4. G
    Bradbury House - Care Home with Nursing Physical Disabilities Good. Care home with nursing, County Durham, North East

See all 41 services run by Leonard Cheshire Disability

Getting help from West Sussex County Council

The council can assess what care someone needs and tell them what help with the cost they may get.

Checked on the council's website, November 2026.

Common questions

Does Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities provide nursing care?
No. The Care Quality Commission lists Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities as a care home without nursing.
How many beds does Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities have?
The Care Quality Commission's register lists 10 beds at Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities.
When was Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities last inspected?
The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities was published on 8 July 2025.
Who runs Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities?
Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities is run by Leonard Cheshire Disability. It runs 41 services in England, 12 of them in the South East.
What is Fethneys Living Options - Care Home Physical Disabilities's CQC rating?
Its overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is Requires improvement, published on 8 July 2025.

Contact

Phone
01903 210869
Address
9 Farncombe Road, Worthing, BN11 2BE Map (opens Google Maps)
Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)

Compare nearby

Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: White Pearl Residential Care (Good, 0.1 miles away) and The New Grange Care Home Limited (Good, 0.2 miles away).

Nearest care homes:

  1. G
    White Pearl Residential Care Good, 0.1 miles away
  2. G
    The New Grange Care Home Limited Good, 0.2 miles away
  3. G
    Warwick House Good, 0.3 miles away
  4. G
    York Lodge Good, 0.3 miles away
  5. RI
    Baytree House Requires improvement, 0.4 miles away

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