Goodrated 6 years ago
Rating from April 2020 (more than 2 years ago)
- Barnsley, S70 4DX
- 62 beds
Earls Lodge Care Home
Earls Lodge Care Home is a care home with nursing in Wakefield, run by Strong Life Care Limited. CQC rated it Good overall in November 2025 (last checked 24 November 2023). It has 52 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a physical disability and younger adults.
- Care home with nursing
Queen Elizabeth Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4AA
What CQC says
Overall rating
Goodrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)
The service is performing well and meeting expectations.
Up from Requires improvement, 8 May 2024.
Last checked by CQC: 24 November 2023.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)Is it effective?
Goodrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)Is it caring?
Goodrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)Is it well-led?
Goodrated 10 months ago (19 November 2025)
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Understanding this rating
Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.
CQC rated it Good overall. It rated “Safe” as Requires improvement.
What CQC looks at
Safe: Requires improvement
CQC checks whether people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. It looks at safeguarding, how risks are managed, staffing levels and training, medicines, and keeping the place clean to stop infections.
Questions you could ask
- How are medicines looked after and given on time?
- How do you decide how many staff are on duty, day and night?
- When something goes wrong, what do you do, and how do you tell families?
How often CQC looks again
There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.
Earlier ratings
Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.
- Requires improvement8 May 2024Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good1 June 2023Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good27 September 2022Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good12 April 2019Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement24 October 2018Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement20 March 2018Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement29 December 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement25 June 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home with nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Physical disability, Younger adults
- Number of beds
- 52
- Nursing care
- Yes, nurses are on hand
- Registered since
- 9 November 2015
- Local council area
- Wakefield
Who runs it
- Provider
- Strong Life Care Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation
Other services from this provider
- Goodrated 7 years ago
Rating from June 2019 (more than 2 years ago)
- Barnsley, S73 9LG
- 40 beds