ESPA Agency
North House, Sunderland, SR5 3RL · Sunderland · North East
This is CQC’s published rating for the homecare service at this location. CQC has not published a separate location-level rating here — it rates the regulated services individually.
CQC has rated more than one service at this address. Every one it has published:
- Homecare — Good, published 8 Dec 2025
- Supported Living — Good, published 8 Dec 2025
What the record says
Rated Good overall. CQC has published no key-question ratings for this service and none of this operator's 16 rated services are below Good.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- All 16 of Education and Services for People with Autism Limited's rated services are Good or better.
- On the record
- No key question is below Good and the rating is current. This is what a clean CQC record looks like — the checks we can make from the published data raise nothing.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits) · Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- 10 Jan 2011
- Run by
- Education and Services for People with Autism Limited
- Phone
- 01915165080
- Website
- www.espa.org.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care at home (visits) · Supported living
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Not yet rated | — |
| Effective | Not yet rated | — |
| Caring | Not yet rated | — |
| Responsive | Not yet rated | — |
| Well-led | Not yet rated | — |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 16 other locations
Other active services registered to Education and Services for People with Autism Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Ashleigh | Outstanding, published 9 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Beechwood | Outstanding, published 21 May 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Sunderland |
| Burnfoot Court | Good, published 27 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Cedars Lodge | Good, published 14 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Sunderland |
| ESPA Domiciliary Agency | Good, published 16 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Middlesbrough |
| East Dene Court | Good, published 9 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | County Durham |
| Education and Services for People with Autism Limited - 35-37 Portland Avenue | Good, published 29 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | County Durham |
| Education and Services for People with Autism Limited - 7 The Cedars | Good, published 16 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Sunderland |
| Education and Services for People with Autism Limited - 8-8a The Cedars | Good, published 11 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Sunderland |
| Forest Hall | Good, published 7 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | North Tyneside |
| Garden Lodge | Good, published 29 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | County Durham |
| Holly House | Good, published 6 Dec 2023 | Sunderland |
…and 4 more.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
More on what actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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- Housing 21 - Dovecote MeadowSunderlandOutstanding, published 31 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Good, published 9 Jun 2026
- Diamond Care and SupportSunderlandGood, published 15 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Helping Hands SunderlandSunderlandGood, published 20 Aug 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-112944118
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.