Cygnet Fountains

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

We inspected Cygnet Fountains on 16 and 17 July 2025.

This inspection was carried out using CQC’s approach to inspection; The Single Assessment Framework (SAF). We looked at all quality statements under each key question. This was an unannounced inspection, which means the provider was not told an inspection was going to be starting beforehand.

Cygnet Fountains is a long stay/rehabilitation unit for up to 34 men of working age. It is registered to provide care and treatment to patients detained under the Mental Health Act. The philosophy of the service is to provide rehabilitation to patients prior to being discharged to a community setting. This includes patients with challenging behaviour, forensic histories and substance misuse issues.

The service had a registered manager at the time of our inspection.

Cygnet Fountains was last inspected in September 2019. We rated the service as outstanding overall. It was rated good in safe and responsive, and outstanding in effective, caring and well-led. At this inspection we rated the service as good overall. It was rated requires improvement in effective and good in safe, caring and responsive and well-led key questions.