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Lakeside Residential Care Home

Smithy Bridge Road, Littleborough, OL15 0DB

Requires improvementpublished 11 August 2025, 12 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 Lakeside Residential Care Home on 29 January 2022. 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 Lakeside Residential Care Home

5 rated inspections over 7 years: the service has improved, from Requires improvement to Good.

  1. January 2022Goodcurrent ratingstayed Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement

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

  2. September 2017Goodup from Requires improvement
    Safe: GoodEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvement
  3. February 2017Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Inadequate
  4. October 2015Requires improvementstayed Requires improvement
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Good
  5. January 2015Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateEffective: InadequateCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  6. May 2019

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 15 May 2019.

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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