Hunningley Grange Residential Home

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 4 September 2025. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

Date of Assessment: 26 June to 4 July 2025. We visited the service on 26 June 2025. Hunningley Grange is a care home providing personal care to older people, some of whom were living with dementia. At the time of this assessment there were 22 people living at Hunningley Grange. At the time of our visit, we found the service was supporting some people with a learning disability. However, the provider was not currently registered to provide support to this client group. We therefore assessed the service against ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ guidance to make judgements about whether the provider guaranteed people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. The provider was not currently able to fully demonstrate how they were meeting the underpinning principles of ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ but agreed to take immediate action to rectify this and also submit an application to register for this service user band. This assessment was to follow up on actions from the last assessment in September 2024. At the last assessment the provider was found to be in breach of the legal regulations relating to safe care and treatment (managing medicines, managing risks, safe environments), staffing, person centred care and good governance. Improvements were found at this assessment, and the provider was no longer in breach of these regulations. The service is now rated Requires Improvement. We carried out a comprehensive assessment of the service covering all 5 key questions – Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-Led. We found significant improvements had been made within the service. A new manager had been recruited, and it was clear the provider had worked hard to address the shortfalls found at the last assessment. There were still some areas that required addressing and some systems and processes needed time to be fully embedded and sustained to ensure continued improvement. Staff told us they now felt supported and were receiving regular support and supervision. We shared some feedback about the recruitment procedures at the service. The provider took immediate action in response to the feedback given. The home was now clean and newly decorated and refurbished throughout. Care systems and processes were now in place to provide clearer oversight of the service. Care plans, care records and risk assessments were now more detailed, and person centred. Medicines were administered safely and learning from audits applied. The provider worked with other agencies to ensure people’s needs were met. Staff were seen to be kind and caring in their interactions and responded to people in a timely way. This service has been in Special Measures since 20 December 2024. The purpose of special measures is to ensure that services providing inadequate care make significant improvements. Special measures provide a framework within which we use our enforcement powers in response to inadequate care and provide a timeframe within which providers must improve the quality of the care they provide. During this assessment the provider demonstrated that improvements have been made. The service is no longer rated as inadequate overall or in any of the key questions. Therefore, this service is no longer in Special Measures.