Barleycroft Care Home

Spring Gardens, Romford, RM7 9LD

01708753476

Care Type

Nursing Care

Assessment date

12 May 2025

Provider

Barleycroft Care Home Ltd

Beds

80 beds

About Barleycroft Care Home

Barleycroft Care Home is a nursing home in Havering, providing personal and nursing care, including support for people living with dementia. Full details from the CQC's most recent inspection are set out below.

Barleycroft Care Home provides accommodation, personal and nursing care for up to 80 people across three floors, one of which specialises in caring for people living with dementia. At the time of assessment, 59 people were using the service. The CQC rating has changed from Good to Requires Improvement, following an inspection focused on how safe and well led the home is.

Inspectors found that risks to people were not always being assessed and managed effectively, though staff understood safeguarding and medicines were managed safely. Governance systems were in place but had not identified or addressed some of the issues found. Caring, effective and responsive care remained rated Good.

Source: CQC assessment, 29 July 2025

Specialist Care

DementiaOlder peoplePhysical disabilitiesYounger adults

Fees and availability

We have not verified a current weekly fee for this home. Ask for a written quote based on the room and care needed, including any extra charges.

Check current vacancies, the admission assessment and visiting arrangements directly with the home.

Care and inspection details

Checked against the CQC register on 20 September 2026. This is a check of published information, not a visit to the home.

Registered service: Care home service with nursing
Registered capacity: 80 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · RM7 9LD

Registered care categories

Caring for adults over 65 yrs; Caring for adults under 65 yrs; Dementia; Physical disabilities.

These describe the registration. The home must assess whether it can meet the individual person's needs and whether a place is available.

CQC ratings in more detail

Overall rating shown by CQC: Requires Improvement.

Assessment published 29 July 2025. Assessment date recorded: 12 May 2025.

Read CQC's assessment overview

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 29 July 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

We carried out an assessment of this service between 10 May 2025 to 22 May 2025. We visited the service on 15 May 2025. Barleycroft is a care home that provides accommodation, personal and nursing care for up to 80 people across three separate floors, each of which has separate adapted facilities. One of the floors specialises in providing care to people living with dementia. At the time of the assessment, there were 59 people using the service.
We spoke with the manager, the clinical lead, the regional support manager, 8 staff, 3 people living at the service and 10 relatives as part of this assessment.
This report only covers our findings in relation to the key questions safe and well-led. For those key questions not inspected, we used the ratings awarded at the last inspection to calculate the overall rating.
We looked at 15 quality statements; Learning culture, Safe systems, pathways and transitions, Safeguarding, Involving people to manage risks, Safe environments, Safe and effective staffing, Infection prevention and control, Medicines optimisation, Shared direction and culture, Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders, Freedom to speak up, Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion, Governance, management and sustainability, Partnerships and communities and Learning, improvement and innovation.
The last rating for this service was Good (published 10 November 2023). The overall rating for the service has changed from Good to Requires improvement based on the findings of this inspection.
We have found evidence that the provider needs to make improvement. Please see the safe and well-led sections of this full report.
You can see what action we have asked the provider to take at the end of this full report. You can read the report from our last comprehensive inspection, by selecting the ‘all reports’ link for Barleycroft on our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Safe: Requires Improvement
Effective: Good
Caring: Good
Responsive: Good
Well-led: Requires Improvement

Questions prompted by these ratings

Safe: What changes have been made to medicines, staffing and safeguarding since this rating?
Well-led: What has changed in management, checks and oversight since this rating?

These are questions for your visit, not a claim about conditions today.

Read Barleycroft Care Home's CQC record and reports.

Contains Care Quality Commission information under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Ratings and registration details can change after the date checked.

5 Questions to Ask on Your Visit

When visiting Barleycroft Care Home, consider asking...

1.What specific dementia training do staff receive and how recently?
2.How do you support a resident who becomes distressed or confused?
3.How does the home keep a record of a resident's life history and personal preferences?
4.How do you involve families as dementia progresses and communication becomes harder?
5.What happens when a resident's dementia reaches an advanced stage?

5 Things to Look For on Your Visit

When you visit Barleycroft Care Home, look out for...

1.Is the environment calm, uncluttered and easy to navigate?
2.Do staff speak to residents with patience and dignity, even if they repeat themselves?
3.Are there memory cues around the home -- photos, familiar objects, clear signage?
4.Do residents seem settled and safe, or agitated and unsupervised?
5.Is there meaningful activity happening, or are residents just sitting quietly with nothing to do?

Could the NHS fund Barleycroft Care Home's fees?

The average nursing home costs £1,535 per week. That's £79,820 a year. NHS Continuing Healthcare could cover all of it. No means test, no contribution from you.

Find out if the NHS could fund these fees