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Care home

Valmark House

90 Mill Road, Colchester, CO4 5LJ · Essex · East of England

4 beds · operated by Broad Horizons Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement25 Nov 2023

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 2 years old, and 1 of this operator's 2 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement25 Nov 2023
Well-ledRequires improvement25 Nov 2023
Age of rating
2 years old — published 25 Nov 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 2 of Broad Horizons Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement25 Nov 2023
EffectiveGood25 Nov 2023
CaringGood25 Nov 2023
ResponsiveGood25 Nov 2023
Well-ledRequires improvement25 Nov 2023

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 — 1 other location

Other active services registered to Broad Horizons Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Mill HouseGood29 Sep 2018rating 3+ yrs oldEssex

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
25 Nov 2010
Beds
4
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-122537715

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.