Care home · Wakefield
Earls Lodge Care Home
Illustrative photo, not of Earls Lodge Care Home- Address
- Queen Elizabeth Road, Wakefield, WF1 4AA
- Run by
- Strong Life Care Limited (3 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 52 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- Yes, registered as a nursing home (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- November 2015 (10 years)
- Registered manager
- Amelia Maria Hallas
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2010 (16 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 07137339)
- Last CQC check
- 19 Nov 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,400–£1,720 a week for nursing care (dementia). Our estimate from published local prices, not a quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
More in Wakefield: Care homes in Wakefield (21) · Best rated care homes in Wakefield · Care homes for dementia care in Wakefield · Care homes for elderly care in Wakefield · Care homes for physical disability care in Wakefield
Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-2286459982
Introducing Earls Lodge Care Home
Earls Lodge Care Home in Wakefield is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a nursing home, run by Strong Life Care Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia and physical disabilities among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (November 2025). Safe was rated Requires improvement. It is one of 21 CQC-registered care homes in and around Wakefield; 15 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Costs to expect
We estimate Earls Lodge Care Home at £1,400–£1,720 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £73k–£89k.
NHS-funded nursing care covers part of the nursing cost for eligible residents and is paid directly to the home.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Wakefield Council after a needs and financial assessment.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
Looking at the five areas: Safe is rated below Good; 4 other areas are Good.
Across Wakefield, 22 of 88 rated care homes are Requires improvement for Safe (25%).
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 56%, averaging 70% overall.
If you are considering it, read the Safe section of the report first and ask what has changed since the inspection.
Choice nearby
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 16 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is The Hollies, under 0.5 miles away.
4 of the 24 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Wakefield East ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS West Yorkshire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (8 min), a pharmacy (7 min), a shop (1 min), a park (2 min), a café (6 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
Who the service is registered for
As listed with the regulator.
Track record
Registered in November 2015, it has 10 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 8 overall ratings for it (2018–2025), starting at Requires improvement; it has gone up 2 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
Reports on record: 6, with the most recent dated 8 May 2024.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe56% score22 of 88 in Wakefield
- Effective75% score73 of 88 in Wakefield
- Caring75% score78 of 88 in Wakefield
- Responsive75% score74 of 88 in Wakefield
- Well-led71% score57 of 88 in Wakefield
CQC key question ratings, published 19 November 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Wakefield share it.
Who runs it
Earls Lodge Care Home is run by Strong Life Care Limited (company 07137339), incorporated in 2010, 5 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 residential care for older and disabled people.
Strong Life Care Limited runs 3 CQC-registered services across 2 council areas; 3 of the 3 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
Inspection findings in brief
- The service provides support to older people and people living with dementia.
- This was a responsive assessment to review breaches of regulations relating to safe care and treatment and good governance and also prompted by concerns which we had received in relation.
- The provider used an electronic care recording system, however, there were gaps in some people’s records.
Inspected 24 November 2023; report published 8 May 2024; supporting 49 people at the time. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Percentage scores by area
Each area below is made up of several quality statements, each scored 1 to 4 by CQC; the percentage combines those scores for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Earls Lodge Care Home scores 70%.
Safe 56%
- Learning culture2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions2 · Some shortfalls
- Safeguarding2 · Some shortfalls
- Involving people to manage risks2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe environments2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
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 75%
- 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 enablement3 · Good
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- 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 71%
- 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 sustainability2 · Some shortfalls
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 25 September 2025, published 19 November 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
How its rating has changed
- Mar 2018
- Oct 2018
- Apr 2019
- Dec 2020
- Sep 2022
- Jun 2023
- May 2024
- Nov 2025
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 8 May 2024
- CQC inspection report 1 June 2023
- CQC inspection report 27 September 2022
- CQC inspection report 3 December 2020
- CQC inspection report 12 April 2019
- CQC inspection report 24 October 2018
Map and area details
- Ward
- Wakefield East
- Council
- Wakefield Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wakefield and Rothwell
- NHS planning area
- NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Type of area
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in WF1 (7)
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Around the building
- Bus stop 120 m (2 min walk) · 28 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Wakefield Kirkgate, 1.1 km (13 min walk)
- GP surgery Warrengate Medical Centre, 680 m (8 min walk)
- Pharmacy Lloyds Pharmacy, 550 m (7 min walk)
- Shop Eastmoor General Store, 110 m (1 min walk)
- Park Queen Elizabeth Park, 170 m (2 min walk)
- Café Coffee Club, 470 m (6 min walk)
- Place of worship Trinity Methodist Church, 180 m (2 min walk)
- Library Wakefield One, 1.2 km (15 min walk)
Straight-line distances to the nearest of each, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Walking routes are longer; check for hills and crossings if you plan to take a relative out.
Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence).
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Where Earls Lodge Care Home stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Wakefield, 74% of the 88 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (November 2025) is more recent than 83% of care home ratings in Wakefield.
- With 52 beds it is larger than 79% of care homes in Wakefield, where the typical home has 22.
- Registered with CQC in 2015: it has been registered longer than 47% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Wakefield lists 4.
- Areas CQC rated below Good: Safe (31% of care homes in Wakefield are also rated below Good here). Ask the provider what has changed since.
All figures compare it with other care homes in Wakefield; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Questions about Earls Lodge Care Home
- Does Earls Lodge Care Home support people with dementia?
- Dementia is listed on its CQC registration. Ask what dementia training staff have and how they handle distress or refusals.
- How recent is Earls Lodge Care Home's CQC rating?
- The rating now shown was published on 19 November 2025. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Where is Earls Lodge Care Home?
- It is at Queen Elizabeth Road, Wakefield, WF1 4AA.
- Is Earls Lodge Care Home regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes. Earls Lodge Care Home is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a care home (location ID 1-2286459982) and was rated Good overall in November 2025.
- What kind of care can Earls Lodge Care Home offer?
- Earls Lodge Care Home is registered for nursing homes. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- What are Earls Lodge Care Home's fees?
- Earls Lodge Care Home has not published its fees with us. Residential care home typically costs £1,230 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in Yorkshire and the Humber). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Is Earls Lodge Care Home rated well for safety?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Earls Lodge Care Home: Safe: Requires improvement; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- How big is Earls Lodge Care Home?
- Earls Lodge Care Home can take up to 52 residents. Ask what is free now and about en-suite rooms.
- Which provider runs Earls Lodge Care Home?
- Strong Life Care Limited is the registered provider for Earls Lodge Care Home.
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