The Gardens Care Home

Nursing homes · Residential homes · 60 beds · Pondfield Close, Salutation Road, Darlington DL3 8LH

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Homesplace Grade · stable

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Is The Gardens Care Home any good?

On the evidence, The Gardens Care Home has a record with one watch point. It was rated Requires improvement at its latest inspection (12 Nov 2024). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 12 Nov 2024CQC 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 12 November 2024.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 12 Nov 2024

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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Nov 2024

Leadership stability

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

L. Leatham · current registered manager
since Nov 2010 · 15 yrs 6 mo

Enforcement and breaches

No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 13 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

60 beds
Nursing homes
Residential homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Caring for adults under 65 yrs
Mental health conditions
Physical disabilities

CQC register · 13 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: ASCOT CARE NORTH EAST LIMITED · 06859658
Incorporated: 26 March 2009
Last accounts: made up to 31 March 2025 · full
Next accounts due: Dec 2026
Charges (secured debt): 3 outstanding · Hsbc UK Bank PLC · 13 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