SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service
- Home care
- Registered since 2018
- Banbury, Oxfordshire, South East
No overall rating
No overall rating: this location offers more than one kind of service, so the CQC rates each service separately.
At a glance
3 ratings
First rated Requires improvement in 2018, most recently Good in April 2024.
3 years
since the latest rating was published.
89%
of rated home care services in Oxfordshire are Good or Outstanding (87% across the South East, 88% across England).
SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service: inspection record
This service has no overall rating at present. The squares show its earlier ratings.
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Ratings published by the Care Quality Commission.
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: Advance Oxfordshire (Good, 1.1 miles away) and Alina Homecare Banbury (Good, 1.1 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- G Advance Oxfordshire Good, 1.1 miles away
- G Alina Homecare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
- G SylvianCare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
- – Banbury, Oxfordshire Not yet rated, 1.2 miles away
- G OSJCT Orchard Meadows Good, 1.3 miles away
What inspectors found
From the Care Quality Commission's assessment published 11 April 2024 (assessment visit 8 January 2024). Quoted under the Open Government Licence.
SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service is a supported living service providing personal care to 5 people at the time of the inspection. The service can support up to 6 people with each person living in their own accommodation. 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. 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. Inspection activity started on 23 January 2024 and ended on 29 January 2024. We visited the location’s service on 23 January 2024. We spoke with 1 person, 2 relatives and 6 staff during the assessment. We reviewed 3 people’s care records and, 3 staff recruitment records as well as general records for the service.
- Safe Good
- Well-led Good
Read the rest of CQC's summary
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Safe
Good
Risk assessments were in place and mitigating strategies recorded. Information recorded was clear and staff understood how to promote positive risk taking. People were supported by staff who were safely recruited and who received sufficient training to meet people’s individual needs. Staff levels were generally consistent. However, there were occasions when staffing levels were lower. The provider had a risk assessment in place regarding minimal staffing levels. Rotas evidenced the staffing levels did not go below this. People were supported to have their health needs met. Staff worked closely with external health care professionals.
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Well-led
Good
Systems and processes were in place to ensure effective oversight of the service. The registered manager completed regular auditing to make improvements and identify any shortfalls.
Questions to ask the service
- Ask to see the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) report and what the service did about any points in it.
- Ask how visit times are agreed and who covers when your usual carer is away.
Registration details
- Registered manager
- Caroline Gani
- Registered with the CQC since
- What it provides
- Domiciliary care service, Supported living service
- Who it supports
- 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 18 October 2019. Latest assessment published 11 April 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
- The Royal School for the BlindBrand: SeeAbility
- Ownership type
- Organisation
- Charity number
- 255913
The Royal School for the Blind runs 20 services in England, 17 of them in the South East. 12 are rated Good or Outstanding, 1 is rated Requires improvement or Inadequate and 7 have no rating yet.
Other services run by The Royal School for the Blind
- G SeeAbility - Applewood Residential Home Good. Care home, East Sussex
- G SeeAbility - Barclay House Residential Home Good. Care home, East Sussex
- G SeeAbility - Denecroft Residential Home Good. Care home, Surrey
- G SeeAbility - Devon Support Service Good. Home care, Devon, South West
Getting help from Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire County Council
- Ask for a care needs assessment
- Phone: 01865 519800, Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5pm, Friday 8.30am to 4pm
- Contact adult social care online
- Support for carers
- Paying for care: Oxfordshire County Council
Checked on the council's website, November 2026.
Common questions
- Does SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service provide nursing care?
- The Care Quality Commission's register does not list nursing care for SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service.
- When was SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service last inspected?
- The Care Quality Commission's latest rating for SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service was published on 11 April 2024.
- Who runs SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service?
- SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service is run by The Royal School for the Blind. It runs 20 services in England, 17 of them in the South East.
- What is SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service's CQC rating?
- No overall rating: this location offers more than one kind of service, so the CQC rates each service separately.
Contact
- Phone
- 01295 268543
- Address
- 1 Nickling Place, Banbury, OX16 1GZ Map (opens Google Maps)
Compare nearby
Nearest rated Good or Outstanding: Advance Oxfordshire (Good, 1.1 miles away) and Alina Homecare Banbury (Good, 1.1 miles away).
Nearest home care services:
- G Advance Oxfordshire Good, 1.1 miles away
- G Alina Homecare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
- G SylvianCare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
- – Banbury, Oxfordshire Not yet rated, 1.2 miles away
- G OSJCT Orchard Meadows Good, 1.3 miles away