Sewells
6 Sewells, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7AQ · Hertfordshire · East of England
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.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (17 Mar 2023), the rating is 3 years old, and 4 of this operator's 65 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 17 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 17 Mar 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 4 of 65 of Royal Mencap Society'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
- 7
- Registered with CQC
- 4 Mar 2026
- Run by
- Royal Mencap Society
- Part of
- Royal Mencap Society · 66 services
- Phone
- 01707321344
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 | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2023 |
| Caring | Not yet rated | — |
| Responsive | Not yet rated | — |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 17 Mar 2023 |
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 — 65 other locations
Other active services registered to Royal Mencap Society. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| 92 North Street | Good, published 17 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| Arbor Way | Good, published 1 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Solihull |
| Bluebell House | Good, published 4 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Middlesbrough |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domiciliary Care Agency | Good, published 16 Nov 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Peterborough |
| Chestnut House | Good, published 1 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Stockton-on-Tees |
| Cinnamon House | Good, published 14 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Middlesbrough |
| Cornwall and South Devon Support Services | Good, published 7 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Cornwall |
| Cottingham Road | Good, published 5 Mar 2018rating 3+ yrs old | North Northamptonshire |
| Dolphin Court | Good, published 23 Mar 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
| Doncaster Community Support | Not yet rated | Doncaster |
| East Fields | Outstanding, published 9 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Derbyshire |
| East Sussex Domiciliary Care Agency | Good, published 25 Oct 2019rating 3+ yrs old | East Sussex |
…and 53 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 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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Other services in Welwyn Garden Cityregistered 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.
- Anson CourtWelwyn Garden City · 75 bedsGood, published 19 May 2025
- GombardsWelwyn Garden City · 8 bedsGood, published 25 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Jubilee House Care Trust - 29 Jonquil CloseWelwyn Garden City · 6 bedsGood, published 18 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- St Andrews Care HomeWelwyn Garden City · 70 bedsGood, published 14 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old
See everything registered for these needs in Welwyn Garden City→
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-26764266346
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.