Ivy Cottage
Ivy Cottage, Kendal, LA8 0ED · Westmorland and Furness · North West
“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.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Cambian Whinfell School Limited's 3 rated homes, none are below Good. This one has no published rating, so it is not counted. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 4
- Registered with CQC
- 12 Feb 2026
- Run by
- Cambian Whinfell School Limited
- Part of
- CareTech Community Services · 150 services
- Phone
- 07467547858
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 1 Sep 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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 4 other locations
Other active services registered to Cambian Whinfell School Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Cambian Dilston College | Good, published 24 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Northumberland |
| Cambian Lufton Manor College | Good, published 16 Dec 2024care homes service | Somerset |
| Cambian Lufton Manor College - White Horse | Not yet rated | Somerset |
| Cambian Whinfell Shap Road | Outstanding, published 4 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
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?
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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See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes registered for care without 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.
- Riverside Houseabout 3.4 miles · Kendal · 32 bedsGood, published 23 Dec 2023
- Croftsideabout 3.9 miles · Milnthorpe · 33 bedsGood, published 24 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Gilling Reane Care Homeabout 4 miles · Kendal · 33 bedsGood, published 15 Aug 2025
- 39a Castle Roadabout 4.2 miles · Kendal · 1 bedsGood, published 17 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-26849935155
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.