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Care home

Whitwood House

82 Lumley Street, Castleford, WF10 5LD · Wakefield · Yorkshire and The Humber

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

CQC overall rating
Good29 Dec 2025

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but 1 of this operator's 15 rated homes are below Good.

Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 15 of Living Ambitions 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
SafeGood29 Dec 2025
EffectiveGood29 Dec 2025
CaringGood29 Dec 2025
ResponsiveGood29 Dec 2025
Well-ledGood29 Dec 2025

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 — 16 other locations

Other active services registered to Living Ambitions Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Living Ambitions - NewcastleGood14 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldNorthumberland
Living Ambitions ChesterGood19 Jan 2024Warrington
Living Ambitions Limited (Doncaster)Good10 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs oldDoncaster
Living Ambitions Limited - 231 Stafford RoadGood16 Feb 2024Sutton
Living Ambitions Limited - 32 Ringstead RoadGood26 Apr 2023rating 3+ yrs oldSutton
Living Ambitions Limited - 330 Guildford RoadGood20 Oct 2018rating 3+ yrs oldSurrey
Living Ambitions Limited - 330a Guildford RoadGood4 Jun 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSurrey
Living Ambitions Limited - 63a Victoria AvenueGood12 Jul 2023Sutton
Living Ambitions Limited - 89 Grosvenor AvenueGood6 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs oldSutton
Living Ambitions Limited - EssexNot RatedEssex
Living Ambitions Limited - StaffordshireGood2 Feb 2022rating 3+ yrs oldStoke-on-Trent
Living Ambitions North East LincolnshireNot yet ratedNorth East Lincolnshire

…and 4 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
10 Sep 2012
Beds
16
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-469893364

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.