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Care home

Ash Tree

81 Leicester Road, Loughborough, LE12 9DF · Leicestershire · East Midlands

6 beds · operated by Stepping Stone Independent Living Ltd

CQC overall rating
Good28 Apr 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (28 Apr 2025), and 1 of this operator's 3 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement28 Apr 2025
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 3 of Stepping Stone Independent Living Ltd'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 improvement28 Apr 2025
EffectiveGood28 Apr 2025
CaringGood28 Apr 2025
ResponsiveGood28 Apr 2025
Well-ledGood28 Apr 2025

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 Stepping Stone Independent Living Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Clifton HouseRequires improvement16 May 2025Sandwell
Regis HouseGood13 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSandwell

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
16 Oct 2015
Beds
6
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-2213864936

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.