Social Care Solutions Ltd (Herts & Bucks)
43 Filbert Close, Hatfield, AL10 9SH · Hertfordshire · East of England
This is CQC’s published rating for the supported living service at this location. CQC has not published a separate location-level rating here — it rates the regulated services individually.
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Social Care Solutions Ltd (Herts & Bucks), Social Care Solutions Limited, deregistered 5 Jan 2018.
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and 3 of this operator's 5 rated services are below Good — this one and 2 others.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 2 Mar 2026EffectiveRequires improvement, published 2 Mar 2026CaringRequires improvement, published 8 Sep 2025ResponsiveRequires improvement, published 8 Sep 2025Well-ledRequires improvement, published 2 Mar 2026
- This operator's rated services
- Of Social Care Solutions Limited's 5 rated services, 3 are below Good — this one and 2 others. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits) · Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- 22 Dec 2017
- Run by
- Social Care Solutions Limited
- Part of
- Lifeways Community Care · 116 services
- Phone
- 02072026300
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) · Supported living
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
For the supported living service — the same service the rating above belongs to.
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvement | 2 Mar 2026 |
| Effective | Requires improvement | 2 Mar 2026 |
| Caring | Requires improvement | 8 Sep 2025 |
| Responsive | Requires improvement | 8 Sep 2025 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 2 Mar 2026 |
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 — 4 other locations
Other active services registered to Social Care Solutions Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Social Care Solutions (Raunds) | Requires improvement, published 28 Nov 2025 | North Northamptonshire |
| Social Care Solutions (Rothwell) | Good, published 2 Apr 2026 | North Northamptonshire |
| Social Care Solutions Ltd (Bedfordshire) | Requires improvement, published 11 Jan 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Milton Keynes |
| Social Care Solutions Ltd (Cambridge) | Good, published 14 Aug 2025supported living service | Peterborough |
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.
- Lifeways Community Care (New Barnet)about 0 miles · HatfieldInadequate, published 12 Sep 2025homecare service
- North Hants, Beds and Bucks Domiciliary Care Officeabout 0.6 miles · HatfieldGood, published 14 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Nursing Care Personnel Ltdabout 0.6 miles · HatfieldRequires improvement, published 21 May 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Chosen Healthcare Ltdabout 0.7 miles · HatfieldNot yet rated
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-4617238417
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.