Friends Together

City Gate, Gallowgate, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4PA

North East · Newcastle upon Tyne · domiciliary

Inadequate

Key question ratings

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

Inspection history

PublishedOverallChangeTransitionAI summary
2016-10-28InadequatenewUnratedInadequateFriends Together received an Inadequate rating because it failed to establish essential safeguarding and quality assurance systems. Critical breaches included no medicines administration procedures, absent risk assessments, incomplete staff recruitment records, insufficient staff training and supervision, and no governance or monitoring processes to ensure safe, effective care.