Rated Care Homes

Assessment and Enablement Team

G

Good

Rated on

Rating from the Care Quality Commission.

At a glance

  • 3 ratings

    Rated Good at every inspection since 2016.

  • 17 months

    since the latest rating was published.

  • 27 of 35

    rated home care services in Bedford are rated Good, like this one.

Assessment and Enablement Team: inspection record

Home care, Bedford

Rated Good in May 2025.

Assessment and Enablement Team: inspection record: inspection ratings by year, 2015 to 2026
201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Overall
Safe
Effective
Caring
Responsive
Well-led

Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.

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What inspectors found

From the Care Quality Commission's assessment published 22 May 2025 (assessment visit 9 April 2025). Quoted under the Open Government Licence.

Date of assessment: 15 April to 18 April 2025

The Assessment and Enablement Team is a domiciliary care agency. It provides personal care and reablement support to people living in their own homes. The service mainly provides short-term care to adults who require a period of support following a stay in hospital due to ill-health, surgery or an injury.

  • Safe Good
  • Caring Good
  • Responsive Good
Read the rest of CQC's summary

Not everyone who used the service received personal care. CQC only inspects where people receive the regulated activity of personal care. This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do, we also consider any wider social care provided.

At the time of this inspection 17 people were receiving support with personal care.

We looked at the 5 priority quality statements from the safe, caring and responsive key questions and found areas of good practice and our overall rating remains good. The scores for these areas have been combined with scores based on the key question ratings from the last inspection.

Staff and managers understood their duty to safeguard people from potential harm and people's risk of experiencing avoidable harm were reduced by the provider's risk assessments and risk management plans. People were respected and valued as individuals, were involved in their care, and asked for feedback regularly about their care.

  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 Good. At this assessment the rating has remained Good. This meant people were safe and protected from avoidable harm.

    People were safe using the service. Staff were trained in safeguarding and knew how to report concerns if necessary. Risks to people were assessed and mitigated as far as possible. There were enough suitably trained and competent staff to support people with their care and reablement visits.

  2. Caring

    Good

    Caring – 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 Good. At this assessment the rating has remained Good. This meant people were supported and treated with dignity and respect; and involved as partners in their care.

    People were positive about their support and told us staff treated them with kindness and compassion. Staff knew people as individuals and supported them to have choices and be as independent as possible in line with their reablement needs.

  3. 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 Good. At this assessment the rating has remained Good. This meant people’s needs were met through good organisation and delivery.

    People knew how to give feedback about their care and were able to raise any concerns or issues. People and their family felt confident that any complaints would be listened to and taken seriously.

Questions to ask the service

  1. Ask to see the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report and what the service did about any points in it.
  2. Ask how visit times are agreed and who covers when your usual carer is away.

Registration details

Registered manager
Karen Everett
Registered with the CQC since
What it provides
Domiciliary care service
Who it supports
Dementia, Older People, Physical Disability, Sensory Impairment, Younger Adults

Inspection report

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

4 inspection reports, latest 2 May 2019. Latest assessment published 22 May 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

Ownership type
Organisation

Bedford Borough Council runs 8 services, all in the East of England. 5 are rated Good or Outstanding and 3 are rated Requires improvement or Inadequate.

Other services run by Bedford Borough Council

  1. G
    George Beal House Good. Care home, Bedford
  2. G
    Parkside Good. Care home, Bedford
  3. G
    Puttenhoe Good. Care home, Bedford
  4. G
    Rivermead Good. Care home, Bedford

See all 8 services run by Bedford Borough Council

Getting help from Bedford Borough 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 Assessment and Enablement Team provide nursing care?
The Care Quality Commission's register does not list nursing care for Assessment and Enablement Team.
When was Assessment and Enablement Team last inspected?
The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for Assessment and Enablement Team was published on 22 May 2025.
Who runs Assessment and Enablement Team?
Assessment and Enablement Team is run by Bedford Borough Council. It runs 8 services, all in the East of England.
What is Assessment and Enablement Team's CQC rating?
Its overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is Good, published on 22 May 2025.

Contact

Phone
01234 718333
Address
Room 305, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP Map (opens Google Maps)
Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)

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