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Belong Chester

36 City Road, Chester, CH1 3AD · Cheshire West and Chester · North West

75 beds · operated by Belong Limited, part of CLS Care Services Limited

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement23 Jan 2026

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 2 of this operator's 15 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement23 Jan 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement23 Jan 2026
Operator's wider portfolio
2 of 15 of Belong Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement23 Jan 2026
EffectiveGood13 May 2025
CaringGood23 Jan 2026
ResponsiveGood23 Jan 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement23 Jan 2026

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 Belong Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Belong Atherton Care VillageOutstanding24 May 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
Belong Crewe Care VillageOutstanding14 Nov 2017rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire East
Belong Macclesfield Care VillageGood9 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire East
Belong Morris FeinmannGood2 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs oldManchester
Belong Newcastle-under-LymeGood4 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs oldStaffordshire
Belong Warrington Care VillageRequires improvement6 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs oldWarrington
Belong Wigan Care VillageOutstanding29 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
Belong at Home ChesterNot yet ratedCheshire West and Chester
Belong at Home DidsburyGood14 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs oldManchester
Belong at Home Domiciliary Care Agency - MacclesfieldGood31 May 2019rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire East
Belong at Home Domiciliary Care Agency - Wigan & SouthportOutstanding15 May 2026Wigan
Belong at Home Domiciliary Care Agency AthertonGood6 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan

…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
7 Jul 2022
Beds
75
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-13083032288

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.