- Care home
Hope Lodge Care Home
Assessment report published 24 January 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of assessment 14 January 2026.
Hope Lodge Care Home is a specialist service that supports autistic people or people with a learning disability. There were 3 people living at the service at the time of our assessment. However, not everyone who used this service received personal care. For care homes, CQC only inspects where people receive help with accommodation and personal care. This is to support people with tasks relating to eating and personal hygiene. At the time of this assessment only 1 person living at Hope Lodge Care Home was receiving personal care.
We 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.
At our last inspection we found 2 breaches of legal regulations concerning safe care and treatment, and governance. At this inspection improvements had been made and the provider was no longer in breach of legal regulations.
Medicines were managed safely. Staff understood how to support people with the risks they could experience. Staff were recruited safely and received appropriate training. Staff told us they felt supported. We identified some improvement was needed to health-related information in a person’s care plan and environmental risks. However, the provider gave us an action plan and told us what actions they would take to improve this.
People's experience of this service
Not all people could speak with us in detail about their experiences. Where this was the case, we also assessed people's experience by speaking with relatives and staff, reviewing people's care records and observing the care and support they received. People were supported by a staff team who knew them well. People were spoken to with kindness, dignity and respect and had their choices and independence promoted. People were supported to access external health professionals appropriately. A person told us “I am happy.”