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Avalon Clarence Gardens

161 Lawefield Lane, Wakefield, WF2 8SU · Wakefield · Yorkshire and The Humber

4 beds · operated by Avalon Group (Social Care)

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement20 Feb 2020rating 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 6 years old, and 1 of this operator's 8 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement20 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
EffectiveRequires improvement20 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement20 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
6 years old — published 20 Feb 2020. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 8 of Avalon Group (Social Care)'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 questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old20 Feb 2020
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old20 Feb 2020
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old20 Feb 2020
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old20 Feb 2020
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old20 Feb 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 — 8 other locations

Other active services registered to Avalon Group (Social Care). The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Avalon Cypress RoadGood1 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs oldWakefield
Avalon Doncaster ServicesGood13 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs oldDoncaster
Avalon Harrogate ServicesGood26 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs oldNorth Yorkshire
Avalon Northallerton ServicesNot RatedNorth Yorkshire
Avalon Scarborough ServicesGood18 Jan 2024North Yorkshire
Avalon Skipton ServicesGood1 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs oldNorth Yorkshire
Avalon Teesside ServicesGood7 Mar 2024Stockton-on-Tees
Avalon York ServicesGood16 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs oldYork

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
17 May 2024
Beds
4
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-18821754085

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.