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The West Gate, Margate — care home record & Homesplace Grade · Homesplace

Care homes/Kentlocal authority/Margatetown · city/The West Gate

The West Gate

Nursing homes · 52 beds · 2-4 Canterbury Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Margate CT8 8JJ

✓ 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 The West Gate any good?

On the evidence, The West Gate has a record with one watch point. It was rated Requires improvement at its latest inspection (7 Jun 2024). The watch point: safe is rated requires improvement at the current inspection. Worth asking about on a visit.

CQC inspection · 7 Jun 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 7 June 2024.

The evidence

Official CQC rating

published 7 Jun 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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Jun 2024

Leadership stability

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

G. Brown · current registered manager
since Jan 2011 · 15 yrs 4 mo

Enforcement and breaches

✓No enforcement action on record

Checked against the CQC enforcement register · 14 June 2026

Capacity and specialisms

52 beds
Nursing homes
Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Caring for adults under 65 yrs
Dementia
Mental health conditions
Physical disabilities
Sensory impairment

CQC register · 14 June 2026

Financial stability

operating company

Active· accounts up to date

Company: BEDSTONE LIMITED · 04073394
Incorporated: 18 September 2000
Last accounts: made up to 31 October 2024 · unaudited-abridged
Next accounts due: Jul 2026
Charges (secured debt): 2 outstanding · Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC · 1 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 · 14 June 2026shown for context · not part of the Homesplace Grade