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Community based adult social care services

Free Spirit Support Service

133 Moorgate, Retford, DN22 6RS · Nottinghamshire · East Midlands

Community based adult social care services · operated by Free Spirit Support Services Ltd

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement25 Dec 2021rating 3+ yrs old

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 Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 4 years old.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement25 Dec 2021rating 3+ yrs old
EffectiveRequires improvement25 Dec 2021rating 3+ yrs old
ResponsiveRequires improvement7 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement25 Dec 2021rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
4 years old — published 25 Dec 2021. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old25 Dec 2021
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old25 Dec 2021
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old7 Mar 2019
ResponsiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old7 Mar 2019
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old25 Dec 2021

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

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
9 Aug 2023
Service type
Community based adult social care services
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-17035566575

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.