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Care home

Firbank House

24 Smallshaw Lane, Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 8PN · Tameside · North West

42 beds · operated by Partnership Caring Ltd, part of Joseph Heifetz

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement11 Sep 2024

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 1 of this operator's 2 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement11 Sep 2024
Well-ledRequires improvement11 Sep 2024
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 2 of Partnership Caring Ltd'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 improvement11 Sep 2024
EffectiveGood11 Sep 2024
CaringGood11 Sep 2024
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old7 Oct 2021
Well-ledRequires improvement11 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 at 11 Jul 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.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Thorncliffe GrangeGood27 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs oldTameside

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
26 Jan 2011
Beds
42
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 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.