Shaftesbury Somerset
C/O Oakwood Church, Taunton, TA2 7PU · Somerset · South West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (8 Sep 2022), and the rating is 3 years old.
- Below Good on
- Well-ledRequires improvement, published 8 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 8 Sep 2022, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Livability's 20 rated services, none are below Good — including this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits) · Community support for people with a learning disability
- Registered with CQC
- 9 Jun 2017
- Run by
- Livability
- Part of
- Livability · 22 services
- Phone
- 01823331109
- Website
- www.livability.org.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 at home (visits) · Community support for people with a learning disability
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 8 Sep 2022 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 8 Sep 2022 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Jul 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Jul 2018 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 8 Sep 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 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 21 other locations
Other active services registered to Livability. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Shaftesbury Anvil House | Good, published 30 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Shaftesbury Ashley Place | Good, published 26 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| Shaftesbury Beaumont Court | Good, published 9 Dec 2023 | Northumberland |
| Shaftesbury Bournemouth | Not yet rated | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Shaftesbury Bradbury Court | Good, published 11 Mar 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Harrow |
| Shaftesbury Brookside House | Outstanding, published 30 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Barnet |
| Shaftesbury Cranfield Court | Good, published 10 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Shaftesbury Dolphin Court | Good, published 1 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Southend-on-Sea |
| Shaftesbury East Anglia | Good, published 22 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Shaftesbury Hallgate | Good, published 14 Dec 2023 | Northumberland |
| Shaftesbury Horizons | Good, published 17 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
| Shaftesbury John Grooms Court | Good, published 14 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Norfolk |
…and 9 more. See the full group view.
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 actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- 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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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other home-care agencies within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses — for an agency that is its office, not where the care happens, so ask whether they cover the postcode. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Stokely Healthcare Ltdabout 0.5 miles · TauntonGood, published 2 Jan 2025homecare service
- Amber Rose Healthcare Ltdabout 0.6 miles · TauntonGood, published 17 Feb 2026homecare service
- Enliva Homecare (Taunton)about 0.6 miles · TauntonGood, published 2 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Noval Care Limitedabout 0.6 miles · TauntonNot yet rated
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-3779460109
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.