The Acorns
Parkside, Wigan, WN2 3LJ · Wigan · North West
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.
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: The Acorns, Dennis Moore - Care Ltd, deregistered 2 Jun 2025.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 4 years old, and 2 of this operator's 9 rated homes are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 4 years old — published 20 Oct 2021, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Franklin Care Group Limited's 9 rated homes, 2 are below Good — not this one.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 39
- Registered with CQC
- 2 Jun 2025
- Run by
- Franklin Care Group Limited
- Phone
- 01942256183
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home with nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Oct 2021 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 20 Oct 2021 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 8 other locations
Other active services registered to Franklin Care Group Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Ashbourne Nursing Home | Good, published 5 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Rochdale |
| Ecclesholme | Good, published 22 Dec 2023 | Salford |
| Fieldhouse Care Home | Good, published 17 Jul 2025 | Rochdale |
| Franklin House Limited | Good, published 2 Mar 2026 | Oldham |
| Hulton Care Home | Requires improvement, published 5 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Rochdale |
| Lakeside Residential Care Home | Requires improvement, published 11 Aug 2025 | Rochdale |
| The Dell | Good, published 24 Feb 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Manchester |
| Tithebarn | Good, published 9 Nov 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Sefton |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes with nursing within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Carrington Courtabout 0.5 miles · Wigan · 48 bedsGood, published 30 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Rosebridge Courtabout 0.5 miles · Wigan · 46 bedsGood, published 6 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- The Rowans Care Homeabout 1.6 miles · Wigan · 66 bedsOutstanding, published 4 Jul 2025
- Belong Wigan Care Villageabout 1.7 miles · Wigan · 67 bedsOutstanding, published 29 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-22162189427
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.