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Care home

The Willows

School Lane, Attleborough, NR17 2LH · Norfolk · East of England

19 beds · operated by Westward Care Homes Limited, part of National Care Group

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement16 Apr 2025

Diligence verdict

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

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement16 Apr 2025
Well-ledRequires improvement16 Apr 2025
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 2 of Westward Care Homes 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 improvement16 Apr 2025
EffectiveGood16 Apr 2025
CaringGood16 Apr 2025
ResponsiveGood16 Apr 2025
Well-ledRequires improvement16 Apr 2025

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 Westward Care Homes Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
8 AcresGood6 Aug 2025Norfolk

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
21 Dec 2010
Beds
19
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-141340747

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.