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Fountains Care Centre

Victoria Park, Swinton Hall Road,, Manchester, M27 4DZ · Salford · North West

98 beds · operated by WCG Fountains Ltd

CQC overall rating
Good17 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old

CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (17 Mar 2020), and the rating is 6 years old.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement17 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
6 years old — published 17 Mar 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old17 Mar 2020
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old9 Nov 2019
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old9 Nov 2019
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Mar 2020
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old17 Mar 2020

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

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
23 May 2022
Beds
98
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-12948737367

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.