Enter and view: Woodcrofts Residential Home
Download (PDF 766.29 KB)Summary of report content
Healthwatch Halton conducted an Enter and View visit at Woodcrofts Residential Home, a privately owned residential home for people with mental health conditions, on 23 January 2018.
Woodcrofts residential home offers supported living for 16 residents with mental health conditions. It can accommodate up to 19 residents at any time. The home has a long standing staff team and many of the residents have been living here for many years with some people coming for shorter stays.
Residents are independent and can go out and about in the local community. The residents can choose how to spend their days and most people go to local shops, pubs and groups. The home is ideally located opposite St. Ambrose Church which offers community activities such as a drop in café, nearly new sales and bowls games. Many residents access their groups. Staff advised the Enter and View Authorised Representatives that the home does not have their own mini bus, entertainers or schools coming in because of the independent nature of the residents who can access services and activities out of the home. For this same reason members of the clergy, dentists and hairdressers do not come to the home. The support staff said that residents come and go freely but do tell them when they are going out, it was noted that there was no formal way to keep track of who was in the building at any time.
Healthwatch Halton noted in the report that the décor was a little dated but clean and free of clutter and there were board games available in the communal areas.
The Manager advised that the majority of residents have been living at Woodcrofts for many years, with one resident having lived there for 28 years. With the Management and staff also being long standing, the manager said that there is a family feel to the way the home is run and described it is as “a safety net that allows people to live as independent lives as possible”.
The report makes eight recommendations including a suggestion that the home should consider developing ways to record who is in or out of the building at any time, for fire safety.
There was no response received by the provider.