CQC ratings published in April 2026

Breakdown

In March 2026 CQC published 340 ratings: 74% Good or Outstanding, 26 up and 16 down.

The largest numbers of these ratings were for services in South East (59), South West (46), North West (43) and West Midlands (39).

Split by service type, care homes: 203 ratings, 72% Good or better, 21 up and 14 down; home care agencies: 130 ratings, 82% Good or better, 15 up and 2 down.

More than one new rating went to Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited (6), Care UK Care Services Limited (4) and Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd (4).

Rated lower (16)

Lower than the rating from the previous inspection.

Improved (36)

Rated higher than at their previous inspection.

Newly rated services (58)

Rating unchanged (111)

Further new ratings (112)

The earlier rating is still to be checked.

Ratings area by area

• Barnsley 4
• Bath and North East Somerset 2
• Birmingham 5
• Blackburn with Darwen 1
• Blackpool 1
• Bolton 2
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 1
• Bracknell Forest 2
• Bradford 2
• Brighton and Hove 2
• Bristol, City of 1
• Buckinghamshire 5
• Bury 1
• Calderdale 2
• Cambridgeshire 2
• Central Bedfordshire 3
• Cheshire East 2
• Cheshire West and Chester 1
• Cornwall 5
• County Durham 3
• Cumberland 2
• Derby 1
• Derbyshire 7
• Devon 6
• Doncaster 1
• Dorset 4
• Dudley 1
• East Riding of Yorkshire 4
• East Sussex 7
• Essex 8
• Gateshead 2
• Gloucestershire 7
• Hampshire 9
• Hartlepool 1
• Herefordshire, County of 2
• Hertfordshire 2
• Isle of Wight 1
• Kent 10
• Kingston upon Hull, City of 1
• Lancashire 11
• Leeds 2
• Leicester 3
• Leicestershire 3
• Lincolnshire 6
• Liverpool 2
• London 34
• Luton 1
• Manchester 1
• Medway 2
• Middlesbrough 2
• Newcastle upon Tyne 3
• Norfolk 10
• North East Lincolnshire 1
• North Lincolnshire 1
• North Somerset 3
• North Tyneside 2
• North Yorkshire 2
• Northumberland 2
• Nottingham 3
• Nottinghamshire 8
• Oldham 2
• Oxfordshire 4
• Peterborough 1
• Plymouth 2
• Portsmouth 1
• Rochdale 1
• Rotherham 1
• Rutland 1
• Salford 3
• Sandwell 2
• Sefton 1
• Sheffield 4
• Shropshire 1
• Slough 1
• Solihull 3
• Somerset 1
• South Gloucestershire 4
• Southend-on-Sea 1
• St. Helens 1
• Staffordshire 2
• Stockport 2
• Stockton-on-Tees 1
• Stoke-on-Trent 3
• Suffolk 2
• Sunderland 3
• Surrey 7
• Swindon 4
• Trafford 3
• Wakefield 2
• Walsall 5
• Warwickshire 9
• West Northamptonshire 4
• West Sussex 8
• Westmorland and Furness 2
• Wiltshire 6
• Wirral 4
• Wolverhampton 3
• Worcestershire 3

Month by month

• October 2026 263
• September 2026 399
• August 2026 355
• July 2026 416
• June 2026 385
• May 2026 328
• April 2026 333
• March 2026 340
• February 2026 272
• January 2026 276
• December 2025 253
• November 2025 262
• October 2025 232
• September 2025 78

How this list works

We check every care home and home care agency in England against the CQC register about once a day and log each new rating with the rating the service had before. A downgrade means the service was rated lower than at its previous inspection. Ratings are published by CQC some weeks after the inspection itself. CQC ratings explained · Services new to CQC · Care Fees and Quality Index