Friends Place
The Chase, Reading, RG31 7DW · West Berkshire · South East
“Not yet rated” means CQC has not published a rating for this registration — usual for recently registered services, which can wait months or years for a first inspection. It is not a judgement either way.
What the record says
CQC has not yet published an overall rating for this service — a common position for a recently registered service, and not a judgement either way. Across this operator's wider portfolio, 1 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 1 of 7 of Friends of the Elderly's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 66
- Registered with CQC
- 1 Aug 2025
- Run by
- Friends of the Elderly
- Part of
- Friends of the Elderly · 8 services
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 without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
No key-question ratings published. CQC rates services on five questions — safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — once it has inspected; this service has no published inspection ratings yet.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 7 other locations
Other active services registered to Friends of the Elderly. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Elderly Malvern | Good, published 18 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Worcestershire |
| Little Bramingham Farm Residential Care Home | Outstanding, published 31 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Luton |
| New Copford Place Residential Care Home | Good, published 14 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Orford House Residential Care Home | Good, published 7 Oct 2025 | Sutton |
| Redcot Residential Care Home | Good, published 5 Nov 2025 | Surrey |
| The Bernard Sunley Nursing and Dementia Care Home | Good, published 16 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
| The Lawn Residential Care Home | Requires improvement, published 22 Jan 2026 | Hampshire |
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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.
- 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?
More on what to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- 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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Other services in Readingregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- 4 Pages OrchardReading · 3 bedsOutstanding, published 21 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Cleeve LodgeReading · 24 bedsOutstanding, published 27 May 2025
- Shinfield ViewReading · 66 bedsOutstanding, published 14 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sonning Gardens Care HomeReading · 103 bedsOutstanding, published 9 Jun 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-23606612598
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.