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Care home

The Royd

27 Selborne Road, Birmingham, B20 2DN · Birmingham · West Midlands

16 beds · operated by Lifeways Community Care Limited, part of Lifeways Community Care

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement30 Jan 2026

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 10 of this operator's 35 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement30 Jan 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement30 Jan 2026
Operator's wider portfolio
10 of 35 of Lifeways Community Care Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvement30 Jan 2026
EffectiveGood30 Jan 2026
CaringGood30 Jan 2026
ResponsiveGood30 Jan 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement30 Jan 2026

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 48 other locations

Other active services registered to Lifeways Community Care Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
1 & 2 Flax CottagesRequires improvement29 Sep 2025Northumberland
Abbeymoor Neurodisability CentreGood12 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldGateshead
Ash HouseRequires improvement20 Jun 2025Coventry
BarleycombeGood17 Dec 2025Suffolk
Beeton GrangeGood31 Dec 2025Birmingham
BulwellGood22 Jan 2026Nottingham
Cambridge ParkGood29 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRichmond upon Thames
Elm Tree HouseGood13 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRochdale
Greenlands ViewRequires improvement2 Dec 2023Birmingham
Kingdom HouseGood23 Sep 2025Rotherham
Lifeways BrightonGood30 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs oldBrighton and Hove
Lifeways Community CareNot RatedLeicestershire

…and 36 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
8 Dec 2016
Beds
16
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-2944724046

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.