Rose Lodge Care Home
At a Glance
The information you need to decide whether this home warrants a closer look.
Nursing homes
Staff warmth score
of reviewers answered yes
Good to know
- Registered beds107
- SpecialismsCaring for adults over 65 yrs, Caring for adults under 65 yrs, Dementia
- Last inspected2024-04-06
- Activities programmeThe home maintains good cleanliness standards throughout, with well-kept rooms and communal areas that visitors notice are consistently clean, even during overnight hours. Food variety appears adequate, with properly set menus offering nutritional choices.
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The Evidence
What the review data, the inspection reports, and the dementia-care evidence base tell us about this home.
What families say
When new residents arrive, staff make real efforts to help them feel they belong, with personal introductions and a warm welcome. Some families describe carers who treat residents with genuine respect and friendliness in daily interactions.
Based on 34 Google reviews · 0 reviews on carehome.co.uk · most recent 2026-04-10
The eight family priority themes
- Staff warmth30
- Compassion & dignity30
- Cleanliness35
- Activities & engagement25
- Food quality30
- Healthcare30
- Management & leadership25
- Resident happiness25
What inspectors found
Inspected 2024-04-06 · Report published 2024-04-06 · Inspected 7 times in the last three years
Is this home safe?
{"found":"The overall rating for this home is Inadequate, which is the lowest possible rating awarded by the official inspection body in England. The domain ratings provided in the data are listed as not yet rated, which suggests the inspection that generated the Inadequate overall rating may have been a focused or urgent inspection rather than a full comprehensive review. No specific safety findings, including staffing numbers, falls data, medicines management, or infection control observations, are included in the report text available for analysis. The home operates 107 beds across nursing and personal care, including for people with dementia, which makes safety findings particularly important.","quotes":[],"family_meaning":"An Inadequate rating is a serious warning sign and should not be minimised. Our Good Practice evidence base, drawing on 61 studies, consistently identifies night staffing ratios and agency staff reliance as the two variables most predictive of safety failures in nursing homes. Because the full inspection text is not available, it is not possible to tell you whether either of these was a factor here. What is known is that the home has moved in the wrong direction across two inspections. For a parent with dementia, who may not be able to communicate distress clearly, consistent and attentive staffing is not optional. You need specific answers before making a decision.","evidence_base":"The Good Practice rapid evidence review (IFF Research and Leeds Beckett University, March 2026) found that safety risks in care homes are most likely to emerge on night shifts and during periods of high agency staff use, precisely because consistency and familiarity matter most to people with dementia who rely on recognising the people around them.","watch_out":"Ask the manager to show you the actual staffing rota for the past two weeks, including nights. Count the number of permanent staff versus agency names on each shift, and ask what the minimum staffing level is on the dementia unit after 8pm."}
Is the care effective?
{"found":"No domain-level findings are available in the inspection text provided for the effective domain. The home lists dementia as a specialism and provides nursing care, which means inspectors would normally examine care plan quality, dementia training records, GP access arrangements, and medicines management in detail. None of this detail is present in the published text available for this analysis. The absence of specific findings does not indicate good practice; it reflects a limitation in the inspection text provided.","quotes":[],"family_meaning":"For a parent with dementia in a nursing home, effectiveness is about whether the staff actually know your parent as a person and whether their care is co-ordinated around their specific needs. Our Good Practice evidence base identifies care plans as living documents that should be updated at least monthly and whenever your parent's condition changes, with family members actively involved in those reviews. An Inadequate rating at the whole-home level raises a reasonable question about whether care plans and training meet this standard here. You cannot assume good practice where a serious regulatory concern exists.","evidence_base":"The IFF Research and Leeds Beckett University evidence review found that regular, meaningful review of care plans with family involvement is one of the strongest predictors of person-centred outcomes for people with dementia, and that homes rated poorly by inspectors frequently had care plans that were generic, outdated, or not acted upon.","watch_out":"Ask to see a sample care plan, with the resident's or family's permission. Check when it was last updated, whether it contains specific details about the person's preferences and history, and whether there is a record of family involvement in the most recent review."}
Is this home caring?
{"found":"No observations about staff kindness, dignity, or the warmth of daily interactions appear in the inspection text provided. In a full inspection, inspectors typically observe whether staff use preferred names, whether residents appear settled and at ease, and whether personal care is delivered with privacy and without rushing. None of this evidence is available here. The Inadequate overall rating means something significant concerned inspectors, but the published text does not allow this analysis to identify whether caring practice was part of that concern.","quotes":[],"family_meaning":"Staff warmth is the single biggest driver of family satisfaction in our review data, with 57.3% of positive reviews across 5,409 UK care homes mentioning it by name. Compassion and dignity is the second largest driver at 55.2%. These are not soft measures; they are what your parent experiences every day. Because the inspection findings are not available in detail, you should plan to visit at different times of day, including mid-morning during personal care routines, and watch how staff speak to and move around residents without prompting.","evidence_base":"The Good Practice evidence review found that non-verbal communication, including tone, pace, and physical proximity, matters as much as verbal interaction for people with advanced dementia. Homes where staff are observed to slow down, make eye contact, and use touch appropriately produce measurably lower levels of distress in residents.","watch_out":"During your visit, find a corridor or communal area and watch how staff pass residents without direct interaction, whether they make eye contact, whether they use the person's name, and whether the overall pace feels hurried or calm. This tells you more than any prepared tour."}
Is the home responsive?
{"found":"No findings about the activity programme, individual engagement, or responsiveness to resident preferences appear in the inspection text provided. For a 107-bed home that includes people with dementia, the question of whether residents have a meaningful daily life, particularly those who cannot participate in group activities, is central. The Inadequate rating may or may not relate to this domain; the text does not allow a determination. The absence of any positive evidence in the published findings is itself notable.","quotes":[],"family_meaning":"Resident happiness is cited in 27.1% of positive family reviews as a key factor, and activities and engagement are referenced in 21.4%. For a parent with dementia, the quality of daily life often depends not on organised group sessions but on whether individual members of staff take time for one-to-one engagement, a short conversation, a familiar task, a walk to the garden. Our Good Practice evidence identifies Montessori-based and household-task approaches as particularly effective for people who can no longer follow structured activities. Ask specifically how staff spend time with residents who cannot join groups.","evidence_base":"The IFF Research and Leeds Beckett University review found that activity programmes in care homes are frequently designed around group participation and may exclude residents with advanced dementia. Homes that train staff in individual engagement techniques consistently produce higher levels of settled behaviour and lower rates of distress.","watch_out":"Ask the activities coordinator to describe what happened yesterday for a resident with advanced dementia who cannot join group sessions. If the answer is vague or defaults to television, that tells you something important about how the home interprets individual engagement."}
Is the home well-led?
{"found":"The inspection data identifies Miss Wendy Johnson as the registered manager and Mr Alan Goldstein as the nominated individual for the provider, Bondcare (Halifax) Limited. No findings about management visibility, staff culture, governance processes, or how the home responds to complaints and incidents are included in the published text. An Inadequate overall rating, following a previous Requires Improvement rating, is a significant indicator that leadership has not driven sufficient improvement over consecutive inspection cycles. This trajectory is a concern in its own right.","quotes":[],"family_meaning":"Our Good Practice evidence base is clear that leadership stability predicts quality trajectory more reliably than almost any other single factor. A home that has declined from Requires Improvement to Inadequate has had at least two chances under inspection to demonstrate improvement and has not yet done so at a level inspectors found satisfactory. Management (23.4%) and communication with families (11.5%) together account for meaningful proportions of what families value. Ask directly how long the current registered manager has been in post, what the staff turnover rate is, and what specific changes have been made since the inspection.","evidence_base":"The IFF Research and Leeds Beckett University review found that care homes where staff feel able to raise concerns without fear, and where managers are regularly visible on the floor rather than office-based, consistently outperform homes where governance is primarily paper-based and staff report limited direct contact with leadership.","watch_out":"Ask the registered manager directly: what were the specific concerns raised in the Inadequate inspection, what has changed since April 2024, and can you see written evidence of the improvement plan and progress against it? A confident, specific answer is a positive sign. Vagueness is not."}
Source: CQC inspection report →
What the evidence base says
Against the DCC Good Practice in Dementia Care standards, this home’s evidence aligns most strongly on The home cares for younger adults under 65 as well as older residents, and has experience supporting people living with dementia.. Gaps or open questions remain on For residents with dementia, the home aims to provide appropriate care, though families should ask detailed questions about staffing levels and care consistency. — areas worth probing directly during a visit.
The DCC Verdict
Our editorial view, built from the three lenses: what families tell us, what inspectors record, and how the home sits against good dementia-care practice.
DCC Family Score
This home was rated Inadequate at the inspection covering the data provided, which represents a decline from a previous Requires Improvement rating. The inspection report text supplied does not contain domain-level findings, so scores reflect the weight of an Inadequate overall rating rather than specific observed strengths.
Homes in Yorkshire & Humberside typically score 68–82.The three-lens summary
What families tell us
When new residents arrive, staff make real efforts to help them feel they belong, with personal introductions and a warm welcome. Some families describe carers who treat residents with genuine respect and friendliness in daily interactions.
What inspectors have recorded
Families have experienced very different standards of care here. While some describe deeply compassionate support during end-of-life care, others report concerning lapses in basic hygiene care and communication that suggest inconsistent management oversight.
How it sits against good practice
Given the mixed experiences families have shared, visiting Rose Lodge and asking specific questions about care standards and staffing will help you understand if it's right for your loved one.
Worth a visit
The home on Gibbet Street in Halifax was rated Inadequate at its most recent inspection, with the rating published in December 2024. This represents a deterioration from a previous Requires Improvement rating, meaning the home has declined across two consecutive inspection cycles. A note of caution is important here: the inspection report text provided to produce this analysis is extremely limited and does not contain the domain-level findings that would normally allow a detailed picture of what inspectors actually observed. The Inadequate rating is a serious regulatory outcome. It means the inspectorate had significant concerns that it was not satisfied the home was meeting fundamental standards. Because the full inspection findings are not available in the text provided, this Family View cannot tell you specifically what went wrong or where the home is weakest. That matters enormously if you are considering this home for your parent. Before visiting, request the full published inspection report directly from the Care Quality Commission website, read it in full, and bring specific questions drawn from its findings. On any visit, pay close attention to how staff speak to and move around residents, whether the environment feels calm and well-maintained, and whether the manager is available and can speak clearly about what has changed since the inspection. Ask the manager directly what action plan is in place in response to the Inadequate rating and request evidence of progress.
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In Their Own Words
How Rose Lodge Care Home describes itself — collected from its own website. DCC has not edited or independently verified the content in this tab.
A care home showing both compassionate moments and serious concerns
Rose Lodge Care Home – Expert Care in Halifax
Rose Lodge Care Home in Halifax provides care for adults over and under 65, including those living with dementia. While some families have experienced genuine kindness during difficult times, others have raised troubling questions about basic care standards that anyone considering this home should carefully explore.
Who they care for
The home cares for younger adults under 65 as well as older residents, and has experience supporting people living with dementia.
For residents with dementia, the home aims to provide appropriate care, though families should ask detailed questions about staffing levels and care consistency.
Management & ethos
Families have experienced very different standards of care here. While some describe deeply compassionate support during end-of-life care, others report concerning lapses in basic hygiene care and communication that suggest inconsistent management oversight.
The home & environment
The home maintains good cleanliness standards throughout, with well-kept rooms and communal areas that visitors notice are consistently clean, even during overnight hours. Food variety appears adequate, with properly set menus offering nutritional choices.
“Given the mixed experiences families have shared, visiting Rose Lodge and asking specific questions about care standards and staffing will help you understand if it's right for your loved one.”
DCC does not edit or curate content in this tab. For independently curated information, see The Evidence and DCC Verdict.
