Care home · Ilkeston
The Cedars and Larches Care Home
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- 16 Queens Drive, Ilkeston, DE7 5GR
- Run by
- Cedars & Larches Care Ltd
- Service
- Nursing home
- Beds
- 69 (registered with CQC)
- Registered with CQC
- December 2023 (2 years)
- Registered manager
- Kris Webster
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2023 (3 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 14807690)
- Last CQC check
- 31 Mar 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,390–£1,690 a week for nursing care (dementia). Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Regulated activities on its registration: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-17949200212
An overview of The Cedars and Larches Care Home
The Cedars and Larches Care Home is a CQC-registered nursing home in Ilkeston, run by Cedars & Larches Care Ltd. Its CQC registration covers older people, including people living with dementia and physical disabilities.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (March 2025). It is one of 16 CQC-registered care homes in and around Ilkeston; 12 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
The company behind The Cedars and Larches Care Home
The Cedars and Larches Care Home is run by Cedars & Larches Care Ltd (company 14807690), incorporated in 2023.
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 nursing care and residential care for older and disabled people.
Budgeting for this home
We estimate The Cedars and Larches Care Home at £1,390–£1,690 a week for nursing care (dementia), based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £72k–£88k.
NHS-funded nursing care covers part of the nursing cost for eligible residents and is paid directly to the home.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Derbyshire Council for a free care needs assessment.
How it fits locally
There are 20 other care homes within 3 miles, 13 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is The Red House, under 0.5 miles away.
8 of the 21 nearest rated care homes have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Little Hallam ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (4 min), a pharmacy (3 min), a shop (3 min), a park (6 min), a café (3 min) and a bus stop (2 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
CQC's scores in detail
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, The Cedars and Larches Care Home scores 75%.
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 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 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 16 March 2025, published 31 March 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Rating history
- Jun 2015
- Mar 2017
- Oct 2019
- Dec 2020
- Mar 2022
- Jul 2023
- Mar 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Food safety inspection
The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from an inspection on 29 April 2026 by Erewash. Meals matter in a care home: ask to see a menu and whether residents can choose.
From the Food Standards Agency (listed as "Cedars & Larches Care Limited"). Open Government Licence.
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Little Hallam
- Council
- Derbyshire County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Erewash
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in DE7 (18)
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Close by
- Bus stop 190 m (2 min walk) · 22 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Ilkeston, 1.6 km (20 min walk)
- GP surgery Gladstone House Surgery, 290 m (4 min walk)
- Pharmacy Well Pharmacy, 240 m (3 min walk)
- Shop MSNN Convenience Store, 260 m (3 min walk)
- Park 470 m (6 min walk)
- Café The Hub, 240 m (3 min walk)
- Place of worship Ilkeston United Reformed Church, 150 m (2 min walk)
- Library Ilkeston Library, 250 m (3 min walk)
From OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), measured in a straight line, so allow extra for the actual route on foot.
Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence.
Needs it is registered to meet
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
The ratings in context
The Cedars and Larches Care Home 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 160 of the 221 other care homes in Derbyshire that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
- Safe75% score178 of 222 in Derbyshire
- Effective75% score190 of 222 in Derbyshire
- Caring75% score195 of 222 in Derbyshire
- Responsive75% score192 of 222 in Derbyshire
- Well-led75% score161 of 222 in Derbyshire
CQC key question ratings, published 31 March 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Derbyshire share it.
History with CQC
The Cedars and Larches Care Home has been registered with CQC since December 2023, about 2 years.
CQC has published 7 overall ratings for it (2015–2025), starting at Good and improving to Good.
Key points from CQC's visit
- The service had a manager registered with the Care Quality Commission.
- The manager and the provider are legally responsible for the quality and safety of the care provided.
- The assessment was conducted by 2 inspectors, 1 specialist nurse advisor and 1 expert by experience.
- This was endorsed by the comments shared by people living there and those who were visiting the home, such as “Staff are so lovely, I never worry about [name] being safe.
Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
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The Cedars and Larches Care Home against its area
- Rated Good. Across Derbyshire, 81% of the 221 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 11 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2025) is more recent than 73% of care home ratings in Derbyshire.
- With 69 beds it is larger than 95% of care homes in Derbyshire, where the typical home has 31.
- Registered with CQC in 2023: it has been registered longer than 18% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Derbyshire lists 3.
Compared with every CQC-registered care home in Derbyshire. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
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What families ask about The Cedars and Larches Care Home
- How recent is The Cedars and Larches Care Home's CQC rating?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 31 March 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- Can The Cedars and Larches Care Home care for someone with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- What services is The Cedars and Larches Care Home registered for?
- Its CQC registration covers nursing homes. Ask The Cedars and Larches Care Home how it would adapt if needs increase.
- Is The Cedars and Larches Care Home a registered provider?
- The Cedars and Larches Care Home is on the CQC register as a care home (ID 1-17949200212) and was rated Good overall in March 2025.
- What is The Cedars and Larches Care Home's address?
- It is at 16 Queens Drive, Ilkeston, DE7 5GR.
- Is The Cedars and Larches Care Home rated well for safety?
- CQC rates five key questions. For The Cedars and Larches Care Home: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- How much does care from The Cedars and Larches Care Home cost?
- No fee list from The Cedars and Larches Care Home has reached us. Residential care home typically costs £1,125 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in East Midlands). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Who runs The Cedars and Larches Care Home?
- CQC lists Cedars & Larches Care Ltd as the provider responsible for The Cedars and Larches Care Home.
- How big is The Cedars and Larches Care Home?
- The Cedars and Larches Care Home is registered for up to 69 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
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