Road Life Health Care Ltd · prepared for Remigio Kadzviti, Deputy Manager & Compliance Lead · 17 Aug 2026
Road Life Health Care Ltd · Burton In Kendal · Westmorland and Furness
3.7 years registered, never yet assessed — and never-assessed services are a named CQC priority
The live CQC register for Road Life Health Care Ltd says one thing today: "We have not inspected this service yet." Registration on 15 December 2022 was itself a check — CQC assessed that the service was likely to be safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led before allowing it to operate — but no published rating exists, which means there is no rating history to defend and everything to set up right. The first assessment writes the public record from a blank page, adult social care inspections commonly arrive unannounced under CQC's published practice, and never-assessed services are one of the three groups CQC has named as assessment priorities. This read sets out what the register shows, the bar the 2,147 already-rated homecare agencies set, and the part no outside document can answer.
The 30-second read
Position
No published rating — registered 15 December 2022, 3.7 years ago; the live register reads "We have not inspected this service yet" (verified 17 Aug 2026). Never-assessed services are one of CQC's three named assessment priorities.
What's changing
Adult social care gets its own draft assessment framework — piloting June–October 2026, in force by the end of 2026 — judged per key question against written descriptors, on evidence read continuously from your systems.
The pattern
Of the 2,147 homecare agencies rated under the current framework, roughly 1 in 5 sits below Good — and among those, well-led is below Good in 98% and safe in 95%. Ratings rarely fall on the care itself; they fall on the evidence trail behind it.
The 30 minutes
We map what your systems could show an inspector today against the questions a first assessment asks — and you leave with the three gaps worth closing first.
30 minutes with Alexey Litvin, GreenM's CEO. Nothing to prepare — we bring the analysis.
Published rating
Noneyet
"We have not inspected this service yet" — live CQC register, 17 Aug 2026.
Registered with CQC
20223.7 yrs
Since 15 December 2022 — personal care for adults over and under 65, and children.
Rated homecare peers
2,147
Homecare agencies carrying a published rating under the current framework.
Of those, below Good
1in 5
441 of 2,147 (20.5%) sit below Good today. Re-derived 17 Aug 2026.
98%
Of homecare agencies rated below Good, the share whose well-led key question is also below Good (safe: 95%). The rating rarely falls on the care itself — it falls on governance and the evidence trail. Re-derived from the register, 17 Aug 2026.
39%
Of England's 14,277 registered homecare agencies have never been assessed at their current registration. Road Life is in that queue — and at 3.7 years registered sits well past that group's 2.2-year median.
9,000+
Reports CQC targets by September 2026 as it pilots the new sector frameworks with providers, June–October. Assessments under the new method are running now, at volume — not waiting for the go-live date.
Your published position
LIVE CQC REGISTER · VERIFIED 17 AUG 2026
Everything CQC publishes about Road Life today is registration, not judgement. That cuts both ways: nothing to defend, and nothing yet banked — the first assessment will be the first time the public record says anything about how the service actually runs. The clock below is what sits between registration and that first judgement.
15 DEC 2022
Registered by CQC. Registration checks that a new service is likely to be safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — the same five questions the first assessment will judge in full.
12 JUN 2026
Consultation closed on the draft sector-specific frameworks, including the Adult Social Care Assessment Framework that homecare will be judged under.
JUN–OCT 2026
CQC pilots the new frameworks with providers — targeting 9,000+ reports by September, with the frameworks in force by the end of 2026. Road Life today: 3.7 years registered, no published assessment.
Service type
Homecare agency — services in your home
Regulated activity
Personal care
Specialisms
Caring for adults over 65 · adults under 65 · children (0–18)
Registered manager
Lonah Thandiwe Madzikwah
Nominated individual
Lancelot Madzikwah
Local authority
Westmorland and Furness
Registration details as displayed on the live CQC register for location 1-14588107663, verified 17 August 2026. Registration age computed against 17 August 2026.
What's changing under homecare
ADULT SOCIAL CARE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK · DRAFT
The six shifts from the guide you downloaded are the rules a first assessment will be scored against. Homecare sits inside the draft Adult Social Care Assessment Framework — consultation closed 12 June 2026, pilots running June–October, in force by the end of the year. Two of the shifts bite hardest for a service being judged for the first time: each key question is judged against written descriptors, so a weak area can no longer be averaged away by stronger neighbours — and evidence is read continuously from your systems: statutory notifications, complaints and workforce returns, between visits, before anyone knocks. Under an intelligence-led regulator, silence between inspections stops reading as a clean record.
Outcomes over processContinuous, intelligence-led monitoringInequalities & resource efficiency in scopeWorkforce elevated within well-ledDescriptor-led, not score-ledOne framework becomes four
The bar a first assessment walks into
2,147 RATED HOMECARE AGENCIES · RE-DERIVED 17 AUG 2026
Road Life has no scores of its own yet, so nothing on this page predicts the first rating. What follows is the current state of the homecare agencies already rated under the framework — where they sit, and where the ones below Good actually slipped. That distribution is the bar a first assessment is judged against, and it is specific about where the risk concentrates.
Outstanding
82 · 3.8%
Good
1,624 · 75.6%
Requires improvement
393 · 18.3%
Inadequate
48 · 2.2%
Latest published rating per location, homecare agencies rated under the current framework (n = 2,147). Bar lengths scaled to the largest band. These are current standings of rated services — not first-rating outcomes.
Among the 441 homecare agencies sitting below Good, the key questions involved follow a steep and consistent pattern:
Well-led
98%
Safe
95%
Effective
47%
Responsive
37%
Caring
24%
Share of below-Good homecare agencies whose individual key question is also below Good. The columns do not sum to 100 — a service can fall on several at once. A below-Good homecare rating almost never happens without well-led or safe being part of it.
One level down, four quality statements do most of the damage across the rated homecare cohort — the same statements a first assessment will ask Road Life to evidence:
Well-led
Governance, management and sustainability
2.47 / 4 cohort average
38% of the rated cohort scored below Good here — the weakest statement in homecare, and the one that decides well-led. Audit trails, action follow-through, evidence connected across systems.
Safe
Involving people to manage risks
2.67 / 4 cohort average
28% scored below Good. Risk assessments personalised to the person, with their voice visible in the plan — not generic templates.
Safe
Safe and effective staffing
2.67 / 4 cohort average
28% scored below Good. Recruitment checks, induction, supervision cadence and rota cover that can be evidenced on the day.
Safe
Medicines optimisation
2.67 / 4 cohort average
27% scored below Good. MAR audit consistency, PRN protocols, and care-plan detail for complex conditions.
Cohort averages and shares computed across the latest rated assessment of each of the 2,147 homecare agencies (statement-level n ≈ 2,140), 17 August 2026. Scores are the current framework's 1–4 statement scale.
Everything above is visible from outside: the register, the rated cohort, where it slips. What no outside document can see is where Road Life's own evidence sits against those statements today — what your care plans, medicines records, rotas, training records and audit trail would show an inspector who arrived unannounced on an ordinary Tuesday. After 3.7 years of delivery, that evidence exists; the open question is whether it is connected and retrievable in the shape the new framework reads. That gap — between what is published and what your systems would show — is what the 30 minutes is for.
What we'd work through together
SIX ITEMS · COVERED LIVE ON THE CALL
Where a first homecare rating actually gets decidedNOW
The three statements that most often pull homecare below GoodNOW
The framework questions you could evidence today — and not yetNOW
The systems map: what holds CQC-relevant evidence, and who owns itONGOING
The signals CQC reads before it ever visitsONGOING
The first-assessment story: 3.7 years of delivery as evidenceONGOING
Show what each item turns on
01
Where a first homecare rating actually gets decided. Turns on how your governance trail reads on an ordinary day — well-led and safe are part of 98% and 95% of below-Good homecare ratings, and only your side can see that trail.
02
The three statements that most often pull homecare below Good. Turns on what your care-planning, rostering and medicines records can show against risk involvement, staffing and medicines optimisation — the cohort's weakest scored statements.
03
The framework questions you could evidence today — and not yet. Turns on your own evidence inventory against the draft ASC framework's questions; the guide's first move, made specific to Road Life.
04
The systems map. Turns on which systems currently hold CQC-relevant evidence — care plans, medicines, rotas, training, daily notes — and who owns each one.
05
The signals CQC reads before it ever visits. Turns on what your statutory notifications, complaints record and workforce returns currently look like as a body of evidence — because silence is read as risk, not as a clean record.
06
The first-assessment story. Turns on what only you know about how the service has grown since December 2022 — and how three and a half years of delivery becomes the evidence base a first rating is built on.
Evidence-ready before the first inspector
GreenM are data and AI specialists: we connect the evidence a care service already generates — care plans, medicines records, rostering, training, daily notes — so it reads cleanly against the framework it will be judged by, rather than being assembled the week before a visit. For Road Life the timing is specific: never-assessed services are a named CQC priority, adult social care inspections commonly arrive unannounced, and the framework pilots are running now. In 30 minutes we take the six items above and narrow them to the three that matter first for Road Life.
30 minutes with Alexey Litvin, GreenM's CEO. Nothing to prepare — we bring the analysis.
Prepared for Remigio Kadzviti, Deputy Manager & Compliance Lead, Road Life Health Care Ltd — following the CQC framework guide downloaded on 15 August 2026. Questions before booking? Just reply to the email this page arrived with.
Source: live CQC register for Road Life Health Care Ltd (location 1-14588107663), verified 17 August 2026 — registration date, service type, regulated activity, specialisms, registered manager, nominated individual and the "We have not inspected this service yet" notice. Cohort figures re-derived 17 August 2026 from GreenM's copy of the CQC register dataset: 2,147 homecare agencies with a published rating under the current framework, 441 (20.5%) below Good; among those, well-led below Good in 98% and safe in 95%; statement-level cohort averages over the same cohort (n ≈ 2,140 per statement). National context: 7,471 locations rated under the current framework, 1,741 (23.3%) below Good; 39.3% of 14,277 registered homecare agencies never assessed at their current registration (median 2.2 years registered). Framework status per CQC's published Better Regulation, Better Care programme: draft sector frameworks, consultation closed 12 June 2026, pilots June–October 2026, 9,000+ reports targeted by September, in force end of 2026. Cohort statistics describe the current state of rated services; they are not predictions of any first rating, and this page does not predict CQC's decisions about any provider.
