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The Laurels Residential Care Home

Walnut Drive, Winsford, CW7 3HH · Cheshire West and Chester · North West

40 beds · operated by Croftwood Care UK Limited, part of Minster Care Group

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement23 Jun 2026

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and 1 of this operator's 19 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement23 Jun 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement23 Jun 2026
Operator's wider portfolio
1 of 19 of Croftwood Care UK 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 improvement23 Jun 2026
EffectiveGood23 Jun 2026
CaringGood23 Jun 2026
ResponsiveGood23 Jun 2026
Well-ledRequires improvement23 Jun 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 — 18 other locations

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

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
Ancliffe Residential Care HomeGood29 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
CroftwoodGood27 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldHalton
Florence Grogan House Residential Care HomeGood9 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire West and Chester
Garswood House Residential Care HomeGood5 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
Gleavewood Residential Care HomeGood15 Dec 2023Cheshire West and Chester
Golborne House Residential Care HomeGood4 Jan 2024Wigan
Greenacres Residential Care HomeGood28 Nov 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
Hourigan House Residential Care HomeGood11 Feb 2026Wigan
Ingersley Court Residential Care HomeGood21 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire East
Lakelands Residential Care HomeGood13 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs oldWigan
Loxley HallGood6 Jul 2023rating 3+ yrs oldCheshire West and Chester
Lyndhurst Residential Care HomeGood3 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs oldWigan

…and 6 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
14 Mar 2018
Beds
40
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-4936555897

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.