Alpha Home Assist
206 Preston New Road, Blackburn, BB2 6PN · Blackburn with Darwen · North West
Community based adult social care services · operated by Northwood Complex Care Ltd, part of Zion Care
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 Well-led is Requires improvement (20 Mar 2019), and the rating is 7 years old.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement20 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 20 Mar 2019. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- All 2 of Northwood Complex Care Ltd's rated homes are Good or better. See the operator.
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 | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Mar 2019 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Mar 2019 |
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 — 2 other locations
Other active services registered to Northwood Complex Care Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Northwood Nursing & Residential Care | Good10 Sep 2024 | Blackburn with Darwen |
| Sandybrook | Not yet rated | Blackburn with Darwen |
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/1-20395765111
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.