Published assessment coverage
This record supplies a rating for 5 assessment areas: Safe, Effective, Responsive, Well-led, Caring. These are the source regulator's individual categories; they have not been converted into a new combined score.
Fern Lodge
Residential care home in Braintree, registered for 8 beds. Regulated by CQC.
Good
Last inspected about a year ago
Last inspected 2025-05-20
What the inspectors scored
| Area assessed | Rating |
|---|---|
| Safe | Good |
| Effective | Good |
| Responsive | Good |
| Well-led | Requires improvement |
| Caring | Good |
Details
- Type of care
- Residential care home
- Registered places
- 8
- Address
- 108 Broad Road, Braintree, CM7 9RX
- Telephone
- 03003032642
- Website
- www.provide.org.uk
- Registered provider
- Provide Care Solutions Limited
- Registered since
- 2023-07-20
- Local authority
- Essex
- Constituency
- Braintree
- Regulator record
- View on cqc.org.uk
At 8 beds it is smaller than 34% of the 313 residential care homes in Essex.
Evidence and freshness
This is a permanent CareFacts record built from the service’s regulator identifier. It is evidence from the public register, not a recommendation or a live vacancy check.
- CareFacts record ID
e1-16310357719- Regulator location ID
1-16310357719- Current source release
- CQC active locations, archived 2026-10-07
- CareFacts data rebuilt
- 2026-10-07
- Inspection evidence
- Latest published date 2025-05-20
A newer source release may change the registration, operator, capacity or rating shown here. CareFacts preserves the identifier so future real changes can be compared once more than one compatible snapshot exists.
Who this service is for
- Learning disabilities or autistic spectrum disorder
- Older People
- Physical Disability
- Sensory Impairment
- Younger Adults
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- Physical disabilities
The operator’s wider record
Provide Care Solutions Limited runs 7 services in the UK with 8 beds. Across the estate:
- 4 good
- 2 need improvement
Other residential care homes in Essex
Alternatives have the same recorded care type and local authority. Ordered by approximate straight-line proximity; the distances are not road or walking routes. Ratings are shown as evidence, not used as a recommendation. Availability and fees need a direct check.
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Not rated No inspection date published
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Good Last inspected about a year ago
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Good Last inspected about 2 years ago
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Good Last inspected about 7 years ago
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Requires improvement Last inspected about 3 years ago
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Poplars
Run by Innova Care Limited
Good Last inspected about 3 years ago -
Good Last inspected about 8 years ago
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Good Last inspected about 6 years ago
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Source: CQC active locations, archived 2026-10-07. Ratings and inspection dates are published by CQC and reproduced here under the Open Government Licence. Always check the regulator’s own record before making a decision.
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A closer look at Fern Lodge
Interpreting the recorded coordinates
Fern Lodge is recorded at 51.8957° north and 0.5657° east. These coordinates identify the mapped record; they do not by themselves establish an entrance, public access or a navigable route.