Care Homes in Essex 316 care homes · 249 rated Good by CQC

• 4 Outstanding
• 245 Good
• 44 Requires improvement
• 4 Inadequate
• 19 Not yet rated

Something at home has usually stopped working safely before a family begins looking at care homes in Essex, and the search rarely arrives with much warning or much spare time. Essex County Council holds responsibility for the care needs assessment that sets out what support a person requires, and for the financial assessment that follows it, which determines how much of the weekly fee falls to public funds and how much to the family. Three hundred and eleven registered providers are listed on this page, all of them residential care homes, and the ratings attached to them cover the whole scale the Care Quality Commission uses. Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, and Inadequate all appear here, together with homes registered too recently for an inspection to have taken place. That variation is exactly why the profile pages matter. Open the homes that fit your area and your budget, read the inspection report that produced the rating, and let its detail guide what you ask when you first walk through the door.

All 316 care homes in Essex

1. Park View Care home in Witham · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   Kings Chase, Witham, Essex CM8 1AX

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Dec 2023

   Run by

   Runwood Homes Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Park View is a residential care home in Witham. We provide care for older people, including those living with dementia, people with a physical disability, people with visual or hearing impairment and some younger adults. Respite stays are available too. We want the home to feel like a household rather than an institution, which in practice means residents run their own days as far as they are able. People get up when they wake, eat what they actually like, and decide how much time to spend with others. Rooms are personalised from the start, and we encourage people to bring their own furniture and pictures because a room that looks like yours settles you far faster. Where someone has a physical disability or reduced sight or hearing, we pay attention to the practical details. Equipment that suits the person, a layout that stays predictable, things kept where people expect to find them, and staff who adapt how they communicate rather than expecting the person to manage. Dementia care rests on familiar staff, a steady rhythm and knowing something of a person's earlier life. Families often supply the detail that explains everything, and we ask for it early. Respite stays suit family carers needing a break and people recovering after illness. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Please come and visit Park View and ask us anything.

   • Older Person Care
   • Dementia Care
   • Physical Disability
   • Visual / Hearing Impairment
   • Younger Adults
   • Respite Care

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2. Danbury Care home in Clacton-on-sea · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   75 Wash Lane, Clacton-on-sea, Essex CO15 1DB

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Jan 2023 over 3 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Achieve Together Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Danbury is a residential care home in Clacton on Sea supporting adults with a learning disability, autistic adults and people with a physical disability, including younger adults. We also offer respite stays. This is somebody's home before it is anything else. People choose how their rooms look, what they eat, when they get up and how much of the day they spend in company. Those choices are most of what makes a place worth living in, and they take steady effort to protect when staff change and pressures build. Support is planned around what each person wants to be able to do rather than only around risk. Cooking, shopping, managing money, using the bus, getting to college, work or activities, and keeping up with family and friends. Where somebody needs a great deal of help, we still look hard for the parts they can take on themselves. Where a person has a physical disability we think properly about equipment, access and the amount of help we offer, because being over assisted is a real loss and it creeps in easily. We learn how each person communicates, including those who use little or no speech, and we pay attention to noise, lighting and predictability. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Please get in touch to visit.

   • Learning Disability / Autism
   • Physical Disability
   • Younger Adults
   • Respite Care

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3. Saresta and Serenade Care home in Colchester · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   Bromley Road, Colchester, Essex CO7 7BX

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Mar 2019 over 7 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Maison Care Ltd

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Saresta and Serenade is a residential home in Colchester, Essex. We support adults with a learning disability, autistic adults, people with a physical disability, and people who are blind, partially sighted, deaf or hard of hearing. Most of the people here are younger adults, and respite stays are available alongside permanent places. This is somewhere people live rather than somewhere people are placed, and that distinction drives most of what we do. People have their own rooms and their own belongings and a real say in how a week looks. Support plans are agreed with the person and written in language the person can actually read. Staff are matched to people with some thought rather than allocated to whoever is on shift. Where a learning disability sits alongside a physical or sensory impairment, the practical side of life takes real planning. Equipment, access, transport, and the time to let somebody do a thing themselves rather than having it done for them because it is faster. We treat that time as part of the job. Where information is taken in differently we slow down, explain before we act, and check rather than assume. Our overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Come and meet the people who live here and ask them what it is like.

   • Learning Disability / Autism
   • Physical Disability
   • Visual / Hearing Impairment
   • Younger Adults
   • Respite Care

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   Valmark House Care home in Colchester · Rated Requires improvement by CQC

   CQC: requires improvement

   90 Mill Road, Colchester, Essex CO4 5LJ

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Nov 2023

   Run by

   Broad Horizons Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Valmark House is a residential home in Colchester, Essex. We support adults with a learning disability and autistic adults, and we offer respite stays as well as permanent places. We should raise our rating ourselves rather than let you find it and wonder why we said nothing. The Care Quality Commission last rated us requires improvement overall. We accept the finding instead of arguing with it. An inspection records what was there on the day, and putting it right belongs to us. There is an action plan, the people who commission placements here know exactly where we have reached with it, and any family considering us is welcome to go through the detail with the manager. What we are trying to be is a home rather than an institution. People here have their own rooms and their own belongings and a real say in how a week looks. Support plans are agreed with the person and written in language the person can read. Where somebody needs a great deal of structure and predictability in order to feel safe, we hold that routine consistently and without treating it as a nuisance. Come and visit, ask the uncomfortable questions, and talk to the people who live here as well as to us.

   • Learning Disability / Autism
   • Respite Care

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   Corner Lodge Care home in Clacton On Sea · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   185-193 Meadow Way, Clacton On Sea, Essex CO15 2HP

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Jun 2021 over 5 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Corner Lodge Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Corner Lodge is a residential care home in Clacton On Sea. We provide care for older people, including those living with dementia and people with visual or hearing impairment, and we offer respite stays. Sensory impairment is something we give deliberate thought to, because it is easily overlooked in a busy home. If somebody's sight is poor, furniture that gets moved and crockery that does not contrast with the table make life harder than it needs to be. If hearing is difficult, a noisy lounge can leave a person isolated in a room full of company. We train staff to adapt how they approach, speak and assist rather than expecting the person to cope. For residents living with dementia, familiarity does most of the work. Consistent staff, a predictable day, surroundings that stay where people expect them, and knowing something about a person's earlier life. Where someone is distressed we look for the reason behind it. Everyday life here is not elaborate. Good food, a warm and clean home, people who know you properly, and help that arrives before you have to ask twice. Being on the coast, a change of scene is easy to arrange. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. Please come and look round Corner Lodge.

   • Older Person Care
   • Dementia Care
   • Visual / Hearing Impairment
   • Respite Care

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6. The Haven Care home in Colchester · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   84 Harwich Road, Colchester, Essex CO4 3BS

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Aug 2023 over 3 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Comfort Care Services (Colchester) Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   The Haven is a residential care home in Colchester for older people who need help with daily living, including many people living with dementia. We also offer respite stays. We are a house rather than an institution and we work to keep it feeling that way. People bring their own furniture and pictures, keep their own hours, choose where to spend the day and get help with washing and dressing at their own pace and as privately as we can manage. Meals are cooked here with real choice at each one, and food matters a great deal to how people feel. Dementia care here is largely about steadiness. Familiar faces, a predictable rhythm, and staff who know somebody's history well enough to understand what is behind a difficult afternoon. We gather that history with families when a person arrives and keep adding to it, so the knowledge belongs to the home rather than leaving with a shift. We keep an eye on health without turning the place into a clinic. If somebody seems unwell we act early, involve the surgery and the district nurses, and tell families what is happening rather than waiting to be asked. Respite stays can give a relative who cares at home a genuine break, and they let somebody get to know us gradually. Our most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission rated the home good overall, and visitors are welcome at any reasonable time.

   • Older Person Care
   • Dementia Care
   • Respite Care

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7. Deansbrook Farm Care home in Southminster · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   Southminster Road, Southminster, Essex CM0 7DZ

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Jul 2019 over 7 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Consensus Support Services Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Deansbrook Farm at Southminster is a residential home for adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults, most of them younger adults. We also offer respite stays. Being on a farm shapes daily life here in a way that matters. There is space, fresh air and real work to be done, and for many of the people who live here that is worth far more than any timetable of activities. People take part as much or as little as they want to, and the satisfaction of having done something that genuinely needed doing is hard to manufacture any other way. People live here for years, so we treat the place as their home and ourselves as part of the household. They decide how their rooms look, have a real say in what is bought and cooked, and shape the week around what they want to do. Support with personal care, medication, health appointments, money and getting about is given exactly as each person has agreed and recorded in detail so that every member of staff does it the same way. Communication is where the real work lies. Not everybody here uses speech, and understanding how a person shows a preference, a worry or a refusal is what makes choice genuine. We learn each person's way and write it down. Our most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission rated us good overall.

   • Learning Disability / Autism
   • Younger Adults
   • Respite Care

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   Stambridge Meadows Care Home Care home in Rochford · Rated Requires improvement by CQC

   CQC: requires improvement

   Stambridge Road, Rochford, Essex SS4 2AR

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Jun 2026

   Run by

   Ilford Homes Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   Stambridge Meadows Care Home is a residential care home in Rochford, Essex. We provide a home for older people, including those living with dementia, people with a physical disability and people with sight or hearing loss, and we also offer respite stays for shorter periods. Our aim is an unhurried, familiar place where people keep their own routines and their own things around them. We ask about preferences in detail, because how somebody likes their morning to go is not a trivial matter when it is the shape of their whole day. Residents choose how much company they want and how much time to themselves, and we try to make both genuinely possible. We should be open with you about our position. The Care Quality Commission most recently judged that we require improvement overall. We have not tried to talk our way around that. We accepted the findings, we have a plan of work in place, and we are progressing it alongside colleagues in health and the local authority. We would rather families heard this from us directly than discovered it later. If you are considering Stambridge Meadows for someone you love, please come and visit. Look at the home properly, speak to the staff and the residents, and ask us exactly what the concerns were and what we have changed since. Those are the right questions to ask of any home, and we will answer them plainly rather than steering you towards a brochure.

   • Older Person Care
   • Dementia Care
   • Physical Disability
   • Visual / Hearing Impairment
   • Respite Care

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   The Conifers Care home in Colchester · Rated Good by CQC

   CQC: good

   Wormingford Road, Colchester, Essex CO6 3NS

   Weekly fees

   £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

   Nursing on site

   No, residential

   Short stays

   Yes, respite

   CQC rated

   Mar 2023 over 3 years ago, ask what has changed

   Run by

   Essex Care Consortium (Fordham) Limited

   Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

   • Care Home

   The Conifers is a residential care home in Colchester, Essex. The people living here include younger adults, people living with dementia, people with a learning disability or autism, people with sight or hearing loss and people managing mental health conditions. We also offer respite stays for shorter periods of care. Our residents need quite different things from us, so support is planned with each person rather than run to a single pattern. People have their own rooms, their own belongings and their own routines, and they have a real say in how the day goes. We are careful about the difference between helping somebody and doing things for them, because independence is easily worn away by help that arrives in too much of a hurry. Communication is something we work at. Not everybody here uses many words, and understanding a person properly takes time, attention and a willingness to be corrected. For those living with dementia, steadiness does the most good. Familiar staff, routines that change only for a reason and patience when words are difficult. Families are closely involved and we keep in touch honestly rather than only when there is a problem. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. We keep examining the things that slip quietly in any home, particularly privacy and choice. If you are considering a place or a respite stay with us, you are welcome to come and visit, meet the people who live here and ask us whatever you need to know.

   • Dementia Care
   • Learning Disability / Autism
   • Mental Health
   • Visual / Hearing Impairment
   • Younger Adults
   • Respite Care

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10. Springfields Residential Home Care home in Colchester · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    Rectory Road, Colchester, Essex CO6 1DH

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Jul 2018 over 8 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Springfields Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Springfields Residential Home is a care home in Colchester, Essex. We provide a home for older people and we also offer respite stays, whether that is to give a family carer a break or to help somebody find their feet again after a spell in hospital. We would rather be judged on ordinary things than on anything grand. Knowing how everybody likes their tea. Remembering which chair belongs to whom. Understanding who wants company from breakfast onwards and who would much rather be left with a newspaper. Helping somebody up when they wake rather than when it suits a rota. We ask about these preferences, write them down and expect them to be followed, because that is most of what makes a place feel like home instead of an institution. Residents keep their own furniture and photographs and decide how their days run. Some want conversation and activity from early on. Others want privacy and a quiet afternoon, and neither needs justifying to us. Families are welcome whenever it suits them, and we keep in touch openly rather than only ringing when there is a difficulty. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. It reflects reliable everyday practice, which is what most families are actually looking for, and we keep checking the detail rather than assuming it will hold on its own. If you are considering a care home in Colchester for someone close to you, please come and look round and ask us anything you like.

    • Older Person Care
    • Respite Care

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    Willow Bay Care home in Canvey Island · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    11 Marine Approach, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 0AL

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Aug 2024

    Run by

    Kingswood Care Services Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Willow Bay is a residential care home on Canvey Island, Essex, supporting adults with a learning disability or autism, including younger adults. We also offer respite stays, which can give a family carer a genuine break while the person staying with us has company and a change of surroundings. This is somebody's home before it is anything else, and we try hard to run it that way. People have their own rooms, their own routines and a real say in how their days go. Support here is about making ordinary things possible rather than doing them for people. Cooking a meal you actually want. Doing your own shopping. Managing money and appointments. Getting to a club, a course or a job. Keeping in touch with family and friends. We pay attention to that distinction, because independence is quietly worn away by help that arrives too quickly. Communication matters a great deal to us. Not everybody here uses many words, and understanding somebody properly takes time, attention and a willingness to be corrected rather than assumptions. Plans are written with the person, reviewed honestly and changed when they stop fitting. We also work alongside families and with social work and health colleagues so that support is joined up. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. We keep examining our practice around choice and independence, where any provider can drift. If you are considering a place or a respite stay with us, please come and visit and meet the people who live here.

    • Learning Disability / Autism
    • Younger Adults
    • Respite Care

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12. Tendring Meadows Care home in Clacton on Sea · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    The Heath, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO16 0BZ

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Oct 2023 over 3 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Archangel Healthcare Ltd

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Tendring Meadows is a residential care home in Clacton on Sea, Essex. The people living here include people living with dementia, people with a physical disability, people with sight or hearing loss and people managing mental health conditions. Respite stays are available for shorter periods of care. Because our residents need quite different things from us, support is planned with each person rather than run to a single pattern. People keep their own rooms, their own belongings and their own routines, and they decide how much of the day to spend in company and how much on their own. We ask about the small preferences in detail and expect our staff to follow them, since those details are most of what makes a place feel like home. For residents living with dementia, consistency helps more than anything. Familiar staff, routines that change only when there is a reason, and the patience to understand what somebody means when words have become unreliable. Where people have sight or hearing loss we take particular care over how we communicate, so that nobody is left out of what is going on around them. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. We take it as evidence that the everyday work is being done properly and we keep looking at the detail. If you are considering a care home in this part of Essex for someone close to you, you are welcome to visit, meet our staff and residents and ask us anything you like.

    • Dementia Care
    • Mental Health
    • Physical Disability
    • Visual / Hearing Impairment
    • Respite Care

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13. Cavendish House Care home in Clacton On Sea · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    27 Carnarvon Road, Clacton On Sea, Essex CO15 6QF

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Oct 2018 over 8 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Florijn Care Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Cavendish House in Clacton On Sea is a residential care home supporting older people and younger adults. Our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental health needs, physical disabilities, and sight and hearing loss. Respite stays are part of what we do. With that range of people the only sensible approach is to build round individuals. Before anybody moves in we spend time with them and whoever they want involved, learning how they like their days to go, what they manage perfectly well themselves, where help would be welcome and what they would rather we left alone. That becomes the plan and it is theirs to change. Help with washing, dressing, mobility, medication and health appointments is given as the person has asked and recorded carefully, so it happens the same way whoever is on shift. Rooms and equipment get real thought. Where there is sensory loss we attend to lighting, contrast, clear signs and working hearing aids. With dementia we lean on knowing somebody well. Where somebody communicates differently we learn how and write it down. Our most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission rated the home good overall.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Learning Disability / Autism
    • Mental Health
    • Physical Disability
    • Visual / Hearing Impairment
    • Younger Adults
    • Respite Care

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14. Sweyne Court Care Home Care home in Rayleigh · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    Hockley Road, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8EB

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Apr 2020 over 6 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Sweyne Healthcare Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Sweyne Court Care Home is a residential care home in Rayleigh, Essex. We provide a home for older people, including many living with dementia, and we also support some younger adults and offer respite stays for shorter periods of care. We want this to feel like somewhere people live rather than somewhere people have been placed. Residents bring their own furniture and photographs, keep their own routines and decide how the day runs. Some are up early and want company and conversation straight away. Others want their own room, a newspaper and a quiet afternoon. Neither needs explaining to us, and we plan around the person rather than around what suits a rota. Supporting people living with dementia is a large part of what we do, and steadiness is what helps most. Familiar faces, routines that change only when there is a reason, patience when words are hard to find, and a real effort to understand what somebody means rather than what they managed to say. Families are closely involved because they often hold the history that makes sense of the present. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is good. It reflects reliable everyday practice, which is what most families are genuinely looking for. If you are considering a care home in this part of Essex for someone close to you, you are welcome to visit, look round properly and ask us whatever you need to know.

    • Older Person Care
    • Dementia Care
    • Younger Adults
    • Respite Care

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15. Oaklands Care home in Basildon · Rated Requires improvement by CQC

    CQC: requires improvement

    Forest Glade, Basildon, Essex SS16 6SX

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Ask the home

    CQC rated

    Aug 2021 over 5 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    WT CC OPCO 2 Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Oaklands is a residential care home in Basildon, Essex, supporting older people and younger adults who need help with everyday life. We should say plainly where we stand. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission was requires improvement. That judgement reflected what the inspection found, and we would rather raise it ourselves than have anyone come across it afterwards and wonder what else we had chosen not to mention. We are glad to go through the report with anyone considering the home and to set out what we have changed since. The daily work continues, and it is where our attention belongs. Care here is planned with each resident and with the people who know them best. We are specific about the help someone wants and the help they would rather do without, because support given where it is not needed takes away independence as surely as neglect does. We look at how each person wants their day arranged, from when they are woken to what they eat and where they sit, and we try to get those things right consistently rather than occasionally. Putting a home right is a matter of sustained attention rather than announcements. If you are considering us, please come and look, talk to residents and relatives, and form your own view of whether we are heading in the right direction.

    • Older Person Care
    • Younger Adults

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16. The Tidings Care home in Halstead · Rated Good by CQC

    CQC: good

    9 Brewery Drive, Halstead, Essex CO9 1BS

    Weekly fees

    £1,000 to £1,350 regional guide for the East of England, ask the home

    Nursing on site

    No, residential

    Short stays

    Yes, respite

    CQC rated

    Jul 2021 over 5 years ago, ask what has changed

    Run by

    Meadowview Care Limited

    Local authority: Essex County Council · Check what you would pay

    • Care Home

    Here at The Tidings, we are a care home based in Halstead, Essex, offering residential care, support for people with learning disabilities and autism, and respite care for those who need a short break or additional support at key moments in their lives. We know that choosing a care home, whether for yourself or someone you love, is one of the most significant decisions a family can face. We do not take that lightly. Our aim is to make sure that everyone who comes through our doors feels genuinely welcomed, respected, and at home, not just in the early days but throughout their time with us. For residents with learning disabilities or autism, we understand that consistency, familiarity, and a calm environment make an enormous difference to daily life. We work closely with each person and their family to understand what matters most to them, what their routines look like, and how we can provide support that fits around the individual rather than the other way around. Our respite care offers a reliable option for people who need short term support, giving both residents and their carers some breathing space with the reassurance that care is in safe, experienced hands. We are proud that our most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission resulted in an overall rating of Good. That matters to us, not as a badge to display, but as a reflection of the work our team puts in day to day to ensure people are well looked after and treated with dignity. Halstead is a wonderful community to be part of, and we feel very much a part of it. If you would like to find out more about life at The Tidings or come and have a look around, we would be very happy to hear from you.

    • Learning Disability / Autism
    • Respite Care

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Local care news in Essex

• New 55 bed care home registered with CQC in Basildon: Oaklands (Essex) (5 November 2026)
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Provider information is sourced from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), last updated August 2026.