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Acorn Care Home, Birmingham — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

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Acorn Care Home

Nursing homes · 31 beds · 88 Handsworth Wood Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham B20 2PL

✓ Verified record · data of 14 June 2026Unclaimed · auto generated from official sources

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Homesplace Grade · stable

Analysed record · answered from official sources

Is Acorn Care Home any good?

On the evidence, Acorn Care Home has a record with one watch point. It was rated Requires improvement at its latest inspection (4 Mar 2025). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 4 Mar 2025CQC register · manager history

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Safe is rated Requires improvement at the current inspection.

Safe is one of the two most heavily weighted key questions in the Homesplace Grade. Rated at the inspection published 4 March 2025.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 4 Mar 2025

Requires improvementoverall

Safe: ● Requires improvement
Effective: ● Good
Caring: ● Good
Responsive: ● Good
Well led: ● Requires improvement

Rating trajectory

all inspections on record

Rated Requires improvement at every inspection on record.

Requires improvement

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Mar 2025

Leadership stability

No manager changes in five years. Stable leadership supports quality, which is why we track it.

E. Dwyer-Green · current registered manager
since Aug 2011 · 14 yrs 10 mo

Enforcement and breaches

✓No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 14 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

31 beds
Nursing homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Caring for adults under 65 yrs
Dementia
Learning disabilities
Mental health conditions

CQC register · 14 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: 1ST CARE LIMITED · 04254989
Incorporated: 19 July 2001
Last accounts: made up to 31 March 2025 · group
Next accounts due: Dec 2026
Charges (secured debt): none outstanding · 9 satisfied

No financial-distress signals on the register: the operating company is active, with accounts and confirmation statement filed on time and no insolvency history.

Companies House · 13 June 2026shown for context · not part of the Homesplace Grade