Graceful Hands Care

Avenue Business Centre, 17 New Road Avenue, Chatham, ME4 6BA

South East · Medway · domiciliary

Requires improvement

Key question ratings

Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
Effective
Requires improvement
Responsive
Requires improvement

Inspection history

PublishedOverallChangeTransitionAI summary
2023-03-18Requires improvementnewUnratedRequires improvementGraceful Hands Care received a 'Requires Improvement' rating because of significant failures in risk management, staff recruitment, and governance systems. Whilst staff were caring and people felt safe, the service lacked proper risk assessments, robust recruitment checks, and systematic oversight to identify and learn from incidents.