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The Oaks Residential Care Home, Colchester — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

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The Oaks Residential Care Home

Residential homes · 30 beds · 14 St Mary's Road, Aingers Green, Great Bentley, Colchester CO7 8NN

✓ Verified record · data of 13 June 2026Unclaimed · auto generated from official sources

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Is The Oaks Residential Care Home any good?

On the evidence, The Oaks Residential Care Home has a record with one watch point. It was rated Good at its latest inspection (6 Feb 2024). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 6 Feb 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 6 February 2024.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 6 Feb 2024

Goodoverall

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

Rating trajectory

all inspections on record

Rated Good at every inspection on record.

Good

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Feb 2024

Leadership stability

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

A. Doyle · current registered manager
since Dec 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

30 beds
Residential homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Dementia
Mental health conditions
Sensory impairment

CQC register · 13 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: FLORENCE CARE HOMES LIMITED · 04140866
Incorporated: 15 January 2001
Last accounts: made up to 31 December 2024 · unaudited-abridged
Next accounts due: Sep 2026
Charges (secured debt): none outstanding · 2 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