Goodrated 5 years ago
Rating from May 2021 (more than 2 years ago)
- Bournemouth, BH8 8TW
A1 Care - Dorchester Branch
A1 Care - Dorchester Branch is a home care service in Dorchester, run by Work Experience Limited. We do not hold an overall CQC rating for it. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people, people with a physical disability and people with a sensory impairment.
- Home care
1 Longmoor Street, Poundbury, Dorchester, DT1 3GN
What CQC says
No overall rating shown
We do not have an overall rating for this service. That does not mean CQC has not looked at it.
CQC sometimes rates a place in parts, for example for each type of care it provides or each group of people it supports, instead of giving one overall rating. Other services have not been rated yet. We cannot tell which applies here from the information we hold.
The CQC page for this service has the full picture.
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.
This is what CQC says about how it rates and inspects services. Each rating on this page is shown as CQC published it.
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.
Why a service may have no overall rating
- It is new. CQC may not have assessed it yet. For a new service, CQC looks at every part of a question before it publishes the first rating for that question.
- It provides more than one type of care from one address, for example home care and supported living. At the moment CQC rates each type of care on its own and the address as a whole has no overall rating. You can see the rating for each type of care.
- CQC did not have enough evidence. Now and then, CQC says there was “insufficient evidence to rate”.
About this service
- Type of care
- Home care
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Physical disability, Sensory impairment, Learning disability or autism, Mental health needs, Younger adults, Drug and alcohol misuse
- Registered since
- 17 December 2025
- Local council area
- Dorset
Who runs it
- Provider
- Work Experience Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation