Shared Lives - Westmorland and Furness Care Services
Town Hall, Kendal, LA9 4DL · Westmorland and Furness · North West
Community based adult social care services · operated by Westmorland and Furness Council
CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.
Diligence verdict
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 3 years old, and 1 of this operator's 14 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 23 Sep 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 1 of 14 of Westmorland and Furness Council's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 23 Sep 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 23 Sep 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 23 Sep 2022 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 23 Sep 2022 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 23 Sep 2022 |
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 Westmorland and Furness Council. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Applethwaite Green | Good15 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Bridge House | Good13 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Christian Head | Good28 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Croftside | Good24 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Elmhurst | Good8 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Eskdale House Supported Living Service | Requires improvement3 Jun 2026 | Westmorland and Furness |
| Grisedale Croft | Good3 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Kendal Supported Living Service | Good15 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Maudes Meadow | Good8 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Parkview Gardens | Good29 Dec 2023 | Westmorland and Furness |
| Riverside House | Good23 Dec 2023 | Westmorland and Furness |
| Shepherds Lodge Residential Home | Not yet rated | Westmorland and Furness |
…and 3 more.
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- Service type
- Community based adult social care services
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-15199058451
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.