Creative Support - St Helens Respite Service
Thyme Lodge, St Helens, WA9 4LY · St. Helens · North West
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but the rating is 7 years old, and 5 of this operator's 76 rated services are below Good.
- Age of rating
- 7 years old — published 5 Oct 2018. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 5 of 76 of Creative Support Limited's rated services are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 5
- Registered with CQC
- 3 Sep 2013
- Run by
- Creative Support Limited
- Part of
- Creative Support Limited · 90 services
- Phone
- 01744815372
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 home without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Oct 2018 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Oct 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Oct 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Oct 2018 |
| Well-led | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 5 Oct 2018 |
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 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 89 other locations
Other active services registered to Creative Support Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Support - 2, 3 and 4 Nightingale Close | Good, published 7 Sep 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Essex |
| Creative Support - Apsley Court | Good, published 24 Aug 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Bromley |
| Creative Support - Barnsley Extra Care Services | Not yet rated | Barnsley |
| Creative Support - Barrow Personalised Services | Good, published 10 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Westmorland and Furness |
| Creative Support - Bedford Services | Not yet rated | Bedford |
| Creative Support - Berkshire & Oxfordshire Services | Good, published 13 Oct 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Reading |
| Creative Support - Blackburn Services | Good, published 3 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Blackburn with Darwen |
| Creative Support - Blackpool Service | Good, published 28 Dec 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Blackpool |
| Creative Support - Bolton Service | Good, published 21 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Bolton |
| Creative Support - Brandling Court | Good, published 29 Jul 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Leeds |
| Creative Support - Bredon Respite Service | Good, published 17 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Halton |
| Creative Support - Bromley Supported Living | Not yet rated | Bromley |
…and 77 more. See the full group view.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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 to look for and ask on a visit —including what an occupational therapist would check for particular needs — at choosing a care home.
- Take the visit checklistWhat to look for and the questions to ask when you visit — the things a rating cannot tell you.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
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- 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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Other services in St Helensregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Lyme HouseSt Helens · 21 bedsGood, published 28 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Madison CourtSt Helens · 66 bedsGood, published 11 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Segal GardensSt Helens · 15 bedsGood, published 18 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Stocks Hall Care Home - St HelensSt Helens · 54 bedsGood, published 24 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-914285614
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.