Tabs@42

What the ratings tell you

Looking at the five areas: Responsive and Well-led are rated Outstanding; 3 other areas are Good.

Across West Northamptonshire, 6 of 95 rated care homes are Outstanding for Responsive (6%), while 9 of 95 rated care homes are Outstanding for Well-led (9%).

Outstanding ratings for a single area are uncommon; the Responsive and Well-led section of the report gives examples of what inspectors saw.

What it may cost

We estimate Tabs@42 at £1,130–£1,380 a week for residential care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £59k–£72k.

Check what the weekly fee leaves out; hairdressing, chiropody, trips and newspapers are common extras.

If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), West Northamptonshire Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.

The local picture

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 15 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is 44 Stimpson Avenue, under 0.5 miles away.

It is registered for needs that fewer services nearby cover: children (3 of the nearest 25).

22 of the 23 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Abington & Phippsville ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Northamptonshire ICB.

Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (6 min), a shop (1 min), a park (8 min), a café (1 min) and a bus stop (3 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.

Ownership and company checks

Tabs@42 is run by Tabs @ 42 Limited (company 05901322), incorporated in 2006, 4 years before this service registered with CQC.

At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.

Its registered business activity is care for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or substance misuse.

Tabs @ 42 Limited runs 3 CQC-registered services; 3 of the 3 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.

All 3 are in West Northamptonshire, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.

How long it has been running

CQC registration dates from January 2011, so the service has been operating for around 15 years under its current registration.

CQC has published 2 overall ratings for it (2016–2018), starting at Good and improving to Outstanding.

It has gone 8 years without a new overall rating. CQC schedules inspections by risk, so this is not a bad sign in itself, though leadership may have moved on.

6 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 14 June 2018.