Care home · Birmingham
Cherry Blossom
Illustrative photo, not of Cherry Blossom- Address
- 49 Rotton Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 0SG
- Run by
- Blueberry Transitional Care Ltd (4 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 6 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- April 2019 (7 years)
- Registered manager
- Stephen Thomas Skeet
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2016 (10 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09988643)
- Last CQC check
- 27 Aug 2024
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,170–£1,420 a week for residential care. An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-6368461509
Introducing Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom is a CQC-registered residential care home in Birmingham, run by Blueberry Transitional Care Ltd. Its CQC registration covers adults under 65, including people living with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (August 2024). It is one of 52 CQC-registered care homes in and around Smethwick; 29 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Who it can help
Taken from its CQC registration.
How the scores break down
CQC's single assessment framework gives every quality statement a score out of 4, then reports each key question as a percentage. Averaged across the five areas, Cherry Blossom scores 73%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 70%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement2 · Some shortfalls
Responsive 71%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity2 · Some shortfalls
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 5 June 2024, published 27 August 2024, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Rating history
- Nov 2020
- Jun 2021
- Aug 2024
- Today Rating 2 years old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 4 June 2021
- CQC inspection report 19 November 2020
Food hygiene
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 20 March 2022 by Birmingham. Ask how special diets are handled and whether residents can eat when they like.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Cherry Blossom House"). Open Government Licence.
Area and map
- Ward
- North Edgbaston
- Council
- Birmingham City Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in B16 (7)
See the wider area · Get directions · OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Around the building
- Bus stop 170 m (2 min walk) · 13 stops within 600 m
- GP surgery Dr Ashok Ayurvedic Clinic & Panchakarma centre, 580 m (7 min walk)
- Pharmacy Noor Pharmacy, 1000 m (12 min walk)
- Shop Tesco Express, 860 m (11 min walk)
- Park St Augustine's Memorial Ground, 270 m (3 min walk)
- Café Reservoir Cafe, 770 m (10 min walk)
- Place of worship Church of St Augustine of Hippo, 270 m (3 min walk)
Distances are as the crow flies, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); real walking routes will be longer and may include hills or busy roads.
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence.
Who runs it
Cherry Blossom is run by Blueberry Transitional Care Ltd (company 09988643), incorporated in 2016, 3 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other residential care.
Blueberry Transitional Care Ltd runs 4 CQC-registered services; 1 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (50%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
All 4 are in Birmingham, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe75% score189 of 253 in Birmingham
- Effective75% score220 of 252 in Birmingham
- Caring70% score232 of 252 in Birmingham
- Responsive71% score225 of 252 in Birmingham
- Well-led75% score156 of 252 in Birmingham
CQC key question ratings, published 27 August 2024. Under each rating: how many care homes in Birmingham share it.
Budgeting for this home
We estimate Cherry Blossom at £1,170–£1,420 a week for residential care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £61k–£74k.
Check what the weekly fee leaves out; hairdressing, chiropody, trips and newspapers are common extras.
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How it fits locally
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 18 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is The Hawthorns, under 0.5 miles away.
4 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in North Edgbaston ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (7 min), a park (3 min), a café (10 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
What inspectors found
- This assessment was brought forward due to concerns received in relation to safeguarding and good governance.
- People and relatives spoke positively about the service they received.
Inspected 29 April 2021; report published 4 June 2021. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from April 2019, so the service has been operating for around 7 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2020–2024), starting at Inspected but not rated; it has gone up 0 and down 0 times, and is now Good.
Reports on record: 2, with the most recent dated 4 June 2021.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
Cherry Blossom has an even profile: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are each rated Good.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 155 of the 251 other care homes in Birmingham that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Effective at 75% and its lowest is Caring at 70%, averaging 73% overall.
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Cherry Blossom against its area
- Rated Good. Across Birmingham, 77% of the 252 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 4 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (August 2024) is more recent than 82% of care home ratings in Birmingham.
- With 6 beds it is smaller than 70% of care homes in Birmingham, where the typical home has 16.
- Registered with CQC in 2019: it has been registered longer than 27% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Birmingham lists 3.
All figures compare it with other care homes in Birmingham; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Frequently asked about Cherry Blossom
- What services is Cherry Blossom registered for?
- Cherry Blossom is registered for residential homes. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- What is Cherry Blossom's address?
- It is at 49 Rotton Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 0SG.
- Is Cherry Blossom a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-6368461509 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a care home and was rated Good overall in August 2024.
- Is Cherry Blossom registered for dementia care?
- Not as a registered specialism. Some services still support people with mild dementia, so ask.
- How recent is Cherry Blossom's CQC rating?
- The latest rating is dated 27 August 2024, 2 years ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- How many residents can Cherry Blossom take?
- Cherry Blossom is registered for up to 6 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
- Who runs Cherry Blossom?
- CQC lists Blueberry Transitional Care Ltd as the provider responsible for Cherry Blossom.
- How much does care from Cherry Blossom cost?
- Cherry Blossom has not published its fees with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,295 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in West Midlands). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- How did Cherry Blossom score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
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