The Barn

The following is CQC's published account of its assessment, published 5 June 2024. References to “we” mean CQC. It describes findings at that time.

The Barn is a care home providing accommodation and personal care for up to 10 people with learning disabilities. At the time of our assessment there were 10 people using the service. We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices and independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted. ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ is the guidance CQC follows to make assessments and judgements about services supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people and providers must have regard to it. At our assessment we found The Barn were meeting the principles of right support, right care, right culture. We visited the service on the 13 February 2024 where we spoke with 4 people and 4 members of staff. We contacted 2 relatives and 1 external professional remotely about their experiences of the service following our site visit. At our previous inspection we identified that quality checks had not consistently identified issues and action plans did not give completion dates to ensure actions were taken. During our assessment we found improvements in this area. We assessed 3 quality statements in Safe and 2 quality statements in Well-led and rated these Good. The overall rating for the service remains Good.