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Acorn Care Home

88 Handsworth Wood Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2PL

Requires improvementpublished 28 May 2025, 15 months ago

Rated Requires improvement: inspectors found the service was not performing as well as it should and told it what to change.

The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on Acorn Care Home on 9 January 2021. We are still reading it. Check back soon, or read the report itself on cqc.org.uk.

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The story over the years

Every inspection of Acorn Care Home

4 rated inspections over 5 years: the service has improved, from Inadequate to Good.

  1. January 2021Inspected but not ratedcurrent rating
    Safe: Inspected but not rated

    We are reading this report · the original is on cqc.org.uk

  2. February 2020Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  3. September 2017Goodstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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  4. September 2015Goodup from Inadequate
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good

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  5. May 2015Inadequate
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Inadequate

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  6. April 2014

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  7. May 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  8. May 2013

    Report published without a new overall rating.

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  9. August 2011

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 3 August 2011.

Ratings and report dates from the Care Quality Commission. A service can also be visited without a new rating being published, so the timeline shows published inspections, not every contact the CQC has had with the service.

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