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The Vale Care Home

Castle Lane, Bolsover, Chesterfield, S44 6PS

Goodpublished 22 May 2025, 15 months ago

Rated Good: inspectors found the service performing well and meeting their expectations.

The report

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The CQC published its most recent report on The Vale Care Home on 30 March 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 The Vale Care Home

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

  1. March 2022Requires improvementcurrent ratingup from Inadequate
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement

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  2. November 2021Inadequatedown from Requires improvement
    Safe: InadequateWell-led: Inadequate

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  3. January 2020Requires improvementdown from Good
    Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement
  4. April 2017Good
    Safe: GoodEffective: Requires improvementCaring: GoodResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Good
  5. October 2020

    Registered with the Care Quality Commission on 8 October 2020.

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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