The Reeds
- Care home
- 8 beds
- No nursing
- Registered since 2016
- Ruskington, Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Good
Rated on
Rating from the Care Quality Commission.
At a glance
3 ratings
First rated Outstanding in 2018, most recently Good in November 2024.
2 years
since the latest rating was published.
177 of 254
rated care homes in Lincolnshire are rated Good, like this one.
The Reeds: inspection record
Rated Good in November 2024.
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Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.
Compare nearby
- RI Kirk House Requires improvement, less than 0.1 miles away
- O Orchard Lodge Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away
- G Chestnuts Retirement Home Good, 1.5 miles away
- O Cherry Tree Lodge Outstanding, 1.5 miles away
- G Roxholm Hall Care Centre Good, 2.1 miles away
What inspectors found
From the Care Quality Commission's assessment published 1 November 2024 (assessment visit 14 March 2024). Quoted under the Open Government Licence.
Date of Assessment 10 April 2024 to 11 July 2024. We visited the provider’s head office on 10 April 2024 and The Reeds on 24 April 2024. The Reeds is a care home, providing support to people with learning disabilities or autism. At the time of the assessment, there were 8 people living at the care home. The inspection was prompted in part due to multiple concerns received about the staffing levels, management of risk and safeguarding, the environment, staff’s ability to provide safe care in line with best practice and governance in the care home. A decision was made for us to inspect and examine those risks.
- Safe Good
- Effective Good
- Caring Good
- Responsive Outstanding
- Well-led Good
Read the rest of CQC's summary
During our assessment we found people’s needs were being met and could find no direct evidence to corroborate the concerns raised. People were safeguarded from abuse and staff knew how to raise concerns.
Risks to people were identified and support was planned to keep people safe. However, staff were not always vigilant about following risk management plans.
We found a breach of the legal regulations in relation to the lack of review of environmental restraints used to safeguard people from harm.
We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it.
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Safe
Good
We found a breach of the legal regulation in relation to environmental restraints. There was no clear plan or review process in order to reduce restrictions as soon as possible.
Staff received training about how to keep people safe. Risks were identified but support plans were not always followed by staff. There were enough staff to meet people’s needs and staff received the support and training needed to provide safe care.
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Effective
Good
The provider used nationally recognised tools to assess people’s needs. However, records did not always show how people were supported to achieve their goals and aspirations.
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Caring
Good
People were generally supported in a kind and caring way. However, language used in people’s records was not always reflective of this. Systems were in place to support staff.
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Responsive
Outstanding
In some cases people’s freedom of movement around their home was restricted and was not monitored or reviewed.
The minimalistic nature of some people’s apartments, assessed for their safety, had not been regularly reviewed.
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Well-led
Good
Systems were in place to monitor the quality of the services provided for people and to support staff to raise concerns. However, the provider failed to ensure some processes to monitor restrictions were in place. The provider acknowledged where actions taken to resolve an issue had not been effective and assured us this would be addressed.
Questions to ask when you visit
- Ask to see the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report and what the home did about any points in it.
- Visit at different times of day, including a mealtime.
Registration details
- Registered manager
- George Lorenti
- Registered with the CQC since
- What it provides
- Care home service without nursing
- Who it supports
- Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder, Physical Disability, Sensory Impairment, Younger Adults
Inspection report
Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)2 inspection reports, latest 16 January 2024. Latest assessment published 1 November 2024; 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
- Home from Home Care Limited
- Ownership type
- Organisation
- Companies House number
- 05106283 (opens Companies House)
Home from Home Care Limited runs 11 services in England, 9 of them in the East Midlands. 10 are rated Good or Outstanding and 1 is rated Requires improvement or Inadequate.
Other services run by Home from Home Care Limited
- O Cherry Tree Lodge Outstanding. Care home, Lincolnshire
- O Orchard Lodge Outstanding. Care home, Lincolnshire
- O The Hawthorns Outstanding. Care home, Lincolnshire
- O The Oaks Outstanding. Care home, Lincolnshire
Getting help from Lincolnshire County Council
The council can assess what care someone needs and tell them what help with the cost they may get.
- Adult social care at Lincolnshire County Council
- Ask for a care needs assessment
- Phone: 01522 782155
- Support for carers
- Paying for care: Lincolnshire County Council
Checked on the council's website, November 2026.
Common questions
- Does The Reeds provide nursing care?
- No. The Care Quality Commission lists The Reeds as a care home without nursing.
- How many beds does The Reeds have?
- The Care Quality Commission's register lists 8 beds at The Reeds.
- When was The Reeds last inspected?
- The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for The Reeds was published on 1 November 2024.
- Who runs The Reeds?
- The Reeds is run by Home from Home Care Limited. It runs 11 services in England, 9 of them in the East Midlands.
- What is The Reeds's CQC rating?
- Its overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is Good, published on 1 November 2024.
Contact
- Phone
- 01526 833612
- Address
- 2 Lincoln Road, Dorrington, Lincoln, LN4 3PT Map (opens Google Maps)
Compare nearby
- RI Kirk House Requires improvement, less than 0.1 miles away
- O Orchard Lodge Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away
- G Chestnuts Retirement Home Good, 1.5 miles away
- O Cherry Tree Lodge Outstanding, 1.5 miles away
- G Roxholm Hall Care Centre Good, 2.1 miles away