Buckingham Care Home
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Buckingham Care Home is a residential care home providing accommodation and personal care to older people, some of whom are living with dementia. The service…
- Care home
- Buckingham Care Home
- Location
- Green Lane, Penistone, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S36 6BS, Penistone, S36 6BS
- Care types
- Residential, Dementia
- CQC rating
- Requires Improvement
- Latest CQC inspection
- 7 March 2023
- Beds
- 72
- Funding accepted
- Self Funding (Private), Local Authority, Local Authority with Top Up, NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Phone
- (01226) 762092
- CQC location ID
- 1-1228268592
Rated 4.4/5 from 7 Google reviews.
What families say
Families have expressed contrasting views about Buckingham Care Home, with some praising the excellent care and kindness provided by staff. However, others have raised concerns about the management, citing poor people skills and referencing a damning CQC report. The home's ability to accommodate special requests,…
What the CQC says
Rated Requires improvement by the CQC on 31 January 2024.
Requires improvement — the service is not performing as well as it should and CQC has told it how to improve. What this rating means
The five key questions
- Safe
- Requires improvement — Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
- Effective
- Requires improvement — Does the care achieve good outcomes and follow best practice?
- Caring
- Good — Are staff kind, respectful and compassionate?
- Responsive
- Good — Is care organised around each person’s needs?
- Well-led
- Requires improvement — Is the home well run, open and always improving?
What has changed
- Overall rating fell from Good to Requires improvement (previously rated June 2022).
- Got worse: Safe (Good → Requires improvement), Effective (Good → Requires improvement).
Source: Care Quality Commission — read the full CQC report. Last checked by CareFinder on 11 September 2026.
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