Essex Community Support & Enabling Service
Heathcroft, Colchester, CO2 8DZ · Essex · East of England
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 7 years old, and 14 of this operator's 47 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 19 Apr 2019, 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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's 47 rated services, 14 are below Good — not this one. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits)
- Registered with CQC
- 24 Jan 2018
- Run by
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Part of
- Leonard Cheshire Disability · 49 services
- Phone
- 07720337923
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)
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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 | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Apr 2019 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 19 Apr 2019 |
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 — 48 other locations
Other active services registered to Leonard Cheshire Disability. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
…and 36 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.
- Your Life Care Solutionsabout 0.2 miles · ColchesterGood, published 1 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- SRP Homecare Ltdabout 0.4 miles · ColchesterNot yet rated
- Graceage Care Colchesterabout 0.9 miles · ColchesterRequires improvement, published 1 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Quality Care Resourcing Ltdabout 0.9 miles · ColchesterGood, published 22 May 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-4772920252
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.