Firbank House
24 Smallshaw Lane, Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 8PN · Tameside · North West
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 11 Sep 2024Well-ledRequires improvement, published 11 Sep 2024
- This operator's rated services
- Of Partnership Caring Ltd's 2 rated homes, 1 is below Good — this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 42
- Registered with CQC
- 26 Jan 2011
- Run by
- Partnership Caring Ltd
- Part of
- Joseph Heifetz · 13 services
- Phone
- 01613431251
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 home without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvement | 11 Sep 2024 |
| Effective | Good | 11 Sep 2024 |
| Caring | Good | 11 Sep 2024 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 7 Oct 2021 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 11 Sep 2024 |
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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 1 other location
Other active services registered to Partnership Caring Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Thorncliffe Grange | Good, published 27 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Tameside |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 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?
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- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- 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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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without nursing within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Clarkson House Residential Care Homeabout 0.8 miles · Ashton-under-lyne · 28 bedsGood, published 8 Jul 2025
- Hurst Hallabout 0.8 miles · Ashton-under-lyne · 50 bedsGood, published 3 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Daisy Nook Houseabout 1 mile · Ashton-under-lyne · 40 bedsGood, published 18 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Holme Leaabout 1.3 miles · Stalybridge · 48 bedsRequires improvement, published 31 Dec 2025
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- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-132017782
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.