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Community based adult social care services

Care South Home Care Services Dorset

2nd Floor, Castledene, Bournemouth, BH8 0DB · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · South West

Community based adult social care services · operated by Care South, part of Care South

CQC overall rating
Good8 Dec 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, with every key question Good and none of this operator's 16 rated homes are below Good.

Operator's wider portfolio
All 16 of Care South's rated homes are Good or better. See the operator.
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 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGood8 Dec 2025
EffectiveGood8 Dec 2025
CaringGood8 Dec 2025
ResponsiveGood8 Dec 2025
Well-ledGood8 Dec 2025

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 15 other locations

Other active services registered to Care South. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Alexandra HouseGood17 Jul 2024Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Beauchamp House Nursing HomeGood9 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Buxton HouseGood23 Sep 2025Dorset
Care South Home Care Services SomersetGood18 May 2018rating 3+ yrs oldSomerset
Castle DeneGood14 Nov 2024Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Dorset HouseGood1 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs oldBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Elizabeth HouseGood29 May 2024Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
FairlawnGood16 Jan 2021rating 3+ yrs oldDorset
Fern Brook LodgeGood4 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs oldDorset
Kenwith Castle Country House CareGood24 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs oldDevon
Maiden Castle HouseGood6 Nov 2025Dorset
Marjorie HouseGood17 Feb 2026Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

…and 3 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
23 Nov 2010
Service type
Community based adult social care services
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-119641840

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.