- Homecare service
Thornbury Community Services
Assessment report published 31 July 2025
Contents
On this page
- Overview
- 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
- Learning, improvement and innovation
Well-led
This means we looked for evidence that service leadership, management and governance assured high-quality, person-centred care; supported learning and innovation; and promoted an open, fair culture.
At our last assessment we rated this key question outstanding. At this assessment the rating has changed to good.
This meant the service was consistently managed and well-led. Leaders and the culture they created promoted high-quality, person-centred care.
The service was in breach of regulation for governance at the service.
This service scored 18 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.
Staff knew and understood the provider’s vision and values and how they were applied in the work of their team.
The provider’s senior leadership team had successfully communicated the provider’s vision and values to the frontline staff in this service.
Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders
We did not look at Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Well-led key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.
Freedom to speak up
We did not look at Freedom to speak up during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Well-led key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion
We did not look at Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Well-led key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.
Governance, management and sustainability
There was a clear framework of what must be discussed at team or directorate level in team meetings to ensure that essential information, such as learning from incidents and complaints, was shared and discussed.
Staff had implemented recommendations from reviews of deaths, incidents, complaints and safeguarding alerts at the service level.
There were insufficient systems in place to ensure that medicines audits and supervision took place. However, there were sufficient systems in place to ensure that staff had the required competencies to work on a care package.
There was a clear framework of what must be discussed at team or directorate level in team meetings to ensure that essential information, such as learning from incidents and complaints, was shared and discussed.
Staff had implemented recommendations from reviews of deaths, incidents, complaints and safeguarding alerts at the service level.
There were insufficient systems in place to ensure that medicines audits and supervision took place. However, there were sufficient systems in place to ensure that staff had the required competencies to work on a care package.
Partnerships and communities
We did not look at Partnerships and communities during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Well-led key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.
Learning, improvement and innovation
We did not look at Learning, improvement and innovation during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Well-led key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.