The Lawns Care Home
Ridsdale Street, Darlington, DL1 4EG · Darlington · North East
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Safe is Requires improvement (6 Oct 2022), the rating is 3 years old, and 4 of this operator's 9 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 6 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 6 Oct 2022. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 4 of 9 of Highgate Care Services Ltd's rated services 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
- 62
- Registered with CQC
- 23 May 2016
- Run by
- Highgate Care Services Ltd
- Part of
- North Bay Group · 49 services
- Phone
- 01325357161
- Website
- www.highgatecare.co.uk
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 without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Oct 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 26 Feb 2020 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 6 Oct 2022 |
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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 9 other locations
Other active services registered to Highgate Care Services Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Cranswick Lodge | Requires improvement, published 18 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Figham House | Requires improvement, published 21 Feb 2025 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Foresters Lodge | Requires improvement, published 19 Jun 2026 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Highgate Home Care | Good, published 7 Apr 2026 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Maple Lodge Care Home | Good, published 10 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | North Yorkshire |
| Oaktree Hall & Lodge | Good, published 30 May 2024 | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| The Elms Care Home | Good, published 2 May 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Lincolnshire |
| The Grange | Good, published 11 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Darlington |
| The Limes | Requires improvement, published 12 Nov 2022rating 3+ yrs old | East Riding of Yorkshire |
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 — 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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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
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Other services in Darlingtonregistered 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.
- Bewick HouseDarlington · 6 bedsOutstanding, published 6 May 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- The AvenueDarlington · 3 bedsOutstanding, published 25 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Clervaux TrustDarlington · 3 bedsGood, published 26 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Darlington ManorDarlington · 60 bedsGood, published 19 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-2577281231
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.