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Care home

The Farmhouse

Heath Farm, Heath Road, Lincoln, LN4 3JD · Lincolnshire · East Midlands

8 beds · operated by Autism Care (UK) Limited, part of Lifeways Community Care

CQC overall rating
Good13 Nov 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, with every key question Good and none of this operator's 9 rated homes are below Good.

Operator's wider portfolio
All 9 of Autism Care (UK) Limited's rated homes are Good or better. See the operator.
On the record
No key question is below Good and the rating is current. This is what a clean CQC record looks like — the checks we can make from the published data raise nothing.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGood13 Nov 2025
EffectiveGood13 Nov 2025
CaringGood13 Nov 2025
ResponsiveGood13 Nov 2025
Well-ledGoodrating 3+ yrs old26 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

Same operator — 9 other locations

Other active services registered to Autism Care (UK) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Autism Care (Grantham)Good16 Jun 2022rating 3+ yrs oldLincolnshire
Autism Care (Lincoln)Good11 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs oldLincolnshire
Autism Care Community Services (Lincolnshire)Not RatedLincolnshire
Autism Care Community Services (Milton Keynes)Good21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs oldMilton Keynes
The BarnGood5 Jun 2024Lincolnshire
The CottageGood18 Jan 2024Lincolnshire
The CroftGood4 Jan 2024Lincolnshire
The HoltGood30 Jan 2025Lincolnshire
The PaddocksGood18 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs oldLincolnshire

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
23 Dec 2010
Beds
8
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-145212098

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.