Rated Care Homes

SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service

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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

Home care, Oxfordshire

This service has no overall rating at present. The squares show its earlier ratings.

SeeAbility Oxfordshire Support Service: 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: Advance Oxfordshire (Good, 1.1 miles away) and Alina Homecare Banbury (Good, 1.1 miles away).

Nearest home care services:

  1. G
    Advance Oxfordshire Good, 1.1 miles away
  2. G
    Alina Homecare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
  3. G
    SylvianCare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
  4. –
    Banbury, Oxfordshire Not yet rated, 1.2 miles away
  5. G
    OSJCT Orchard Meadows Good, 1.3 miles away

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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
  1. 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.

  2. 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

  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
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

  1. G
    SeeAbility - Applewood Residential Home Good. Care home, East Sussex
  2. G
    SeeAbility - Barclay House Residential Home Good. Care home, East Sussex
  3. G
    SeeAbility - Denecroft Residential Home Good. Care home, Surrey
  4. G
    SeeAbility - Devon Support Service Good. Home care, Devon, South West

See all 20 services run by The Royal School for the Blind

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.

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

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:

  1. G
    Advance Oxfordshire Good, 1.1 miles away
  2. G
    Alina Homecare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
  3. G
    SylvianCare Banbury Good, 1.1 miles away
  4. –
    Banbury, Oxfordshire Not yet rated, 1.2 miles away
  5. G
    OSJCT Orchard Meadows Good, 1.3 miles away

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