Real Life Options - Yorkshire
- Home care
- Dementia care
- Registered since 2017
- Beeston, Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber
Requires improvement
Rated on
Rating from the Care Quality Commission.
At a glance
2 ratings
Its last inspection moved it down from Good to Requires improvement.
4 years
since the latest rating was published. A rating this old may not show how the service is today.
22 of 132
rated home care services in Leeds are rated Requires improvement, like this one.
Real Life Options - Yorkshire: inspection record
Rated Requires improvement in March 2023, down from Good.
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Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: AS Care Limited (Good, less than 0.1 miles away) and Be Caring Leeds (Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- G AS Care Limited Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- O Be Caring Leeds Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away
- – Bluebird Care (Leeds South) Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- G HF Trust Leeds and Bradford Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- G Metis Care Limited Good, less than 0.1 miles away
What inspectors found
From the Care Quality Commission's inspection report published 8 March 2023. Quoted under the Open Government Licence.
Summary Real life options- Yorkshire provide support to people with learning disabilities living in 7 supported living settings, so that they can live in their own home as independently as possible. The service also provides domiciliary care to people living in their own houses and flats. At the time of our inspection, 37 people were receiving a regulated activity. Not everyone who used the service received personal care. CQC only inspects where people receive personal care. This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating. Where they do we also consider any wider social care provided.
Read the rest of CQC's summary
People's experience of using the service and what we found We expect health and social care providers to guarantee autistic people and people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. Right support, right care, right culture is the statutory guidance which supports CQC to make assessments and judgements about services providing support to people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
The service was able to demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of Right support, right care, right culture.
Right Support People were supported in having choice and control over aspects of their lives, for example people living in supported living settings had personalised their bedrooms. Risks to people were recognised, assessed and managed safely. Systems were in place to protect people from abuse and improper treatment. People were encouraged to be as independent as possible.
Right Care There was not always enough staff to support people. Staff were knowledgeable about the people they supported and had established good rapport however, the service relied on agency staff who did not always know the needs of people.
Right culture Recent changes in management had improved the service. People were supported to regularly identify, or review, on-going individual aspirations and life goals. Management supported staff in improving practice. For more details, please see the full report which is on the CQC website at www.cqc.org.uk
Questions to ask the service
- Safe was rated Requires improvement on 8 March 2023. Ask how medicines are managed, how staffing levels are decided and how incidents are reviewed.
- Well-led was rated Requires improvement on 8 March 2023. Ask about changes in management and what has changed since the report.
- The last rating is 4 years old. Ask what has changed since then.
Registration details
- Registered manager
- Joanne Stringer
- Registered with the CQC since
- What it provides
- Domiciliary care service, Supported living service
- Who it supports
- Children 0-18 years, Dementia, Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder, Mental Health, Older People, Physical Disability, Sensory Impairment, Younger Adults
Inspection report
Read the full inspection report (opens the Care Quality Commission website)2 inspection reports, latest 8 March 2023. The reports are on the Care Quality Commission website.
The rating is the Care Quality Commission's. We show it as published and do not change it.
Who runs it
- Provider
- Real Life OptionsBrand: Real Life Options
- Ownership type
- Organisation
- Companies House number
- 02699638 (opens Companies House)
Real Life Options runs 15 services in England, 2 of them in Yorkshire and the Humber. 13 are rated Good or Outstanding, 1 is rated Requires improvement or Inadequate and 1 has no rating yet.
Other services run by Real Life Options
- G Real Life Options - 18 Bisley Drive Good. Care home, South Tyneside, North East
- G Real Life Options - 2 Frederick Street Good. Care home, Stockton-on-Tees, North East
- G Real Life Options - 90 Capel Gardens Good. Care home, Harrow, London
- G Real Life Options - 96 Bishopton Road Good. Care home, Stockton-on-Tees, North East
Getting help from Leeds City Council
The council can assess what care someone needs and tell them what help with the cost they may get.
- Adult social care at Leeds City Council
- Ask for a care needs assessment
- Phone: 0113 222 4401, weekdays 9am to 5pm (Wednesdays from 10am)
- Support for carers
- Paying for care: Leeds City Council
Checked on the council's website, November 2026.
Common questions
- Does Real Life Options - Yorkshire provide nursing care?
- The Care Quality Commission's register does not list nursing care for Real Life Options - Yorkshire.
- When was Real Life Options - Yorkshire last inspected?
- The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for Real Life Options - Yorkshire was published on 8 March 2023.
- Who runs Real Life Options - Yorkshire?
- Real Life Options - Yorkshire is run by Real Life Options. It runs 15 services in England, 2 of them in Yorkshire and the Humber.
- What is Real Life Options - Yorkshire's CQC rating?
- Its overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is Requires improvement, published on 8 March 2023.
Contact
- Phone
- 0113 271 4100
- Address
- Office 38, Sugar Mill, Oakhurst Road, Leeds, LS11 7HL Map (opens Google Maps)
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: AS Care Limited (Good, less than 0.1 miles away) and Be Caring Leeds (Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- G AS Care Limited Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- O Be Caring Leeds Outstanding, less than 0.1 miles away
- – Bluebird Care (Leeds South) Not yet rated, less than 0.1 miles away
- G HF Trust Leeds and Bradford Good, less than 0.1 miles away
- G Metis Care Limited Good, less than 0.1 miles away