Meadowcroft Residential Care Home

Meadowcroft Residential Care Home

Residential care home in Wolverhampton

Operated by SCL Care

CQC Requires improvement17 bedsDementiaResidential
NeighbourhoodGreen SurroundingsWell Served
What do these badges mean?
  • Green Surroundings — Excellent access to parks, playing fields and other green space nearby (OpenStreetMap).
  • Well Served — Excellent everyday amenities nearby — shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, post offices, cafés and places to eat (OpenStreetMap).
Address197-199 Bushbury Lane, Wolverhampton, WV10 9TY
Beds17

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About

Meadowcroft Residential Care Home is a 17-bed care home in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, providing residential care and specialist support for people living with dementia and physical disabilities. The home is registered to deliver both residential and dementia-focused care.

The Care Quality Commission rated Meadowcroft as Requires Improvement in its 2024 report. The home was rated Good for Effective, Caring and Responsive care, but Requires Improvement for Safe and Well-led.

What inspectors found

CQC: Requires improvement

Report published 9 February 2024 · Last inspected 18 January 2024

Inspectors rated this residential care home, which supports younger and older adults including some living with dementia, as requires improvement. They found people were kept safe, with risk assessments and management plans in place, and that staffing levels and recruitment were adequate. The home was described as calm, with people generally content and staff understanding their needs.

Strengths noted
  • People were kept safe, and staff understood how to protect them from abuse.
  • Risk assessments were completed and staff knew the plans for keeping people safe.
  • Staffing levels and recruitment processes were found to be sufficient and safe.
  • The home had a calm atmosphere, and people were supported to make choices and stay in control of their lives.
Areas to improve
  • Medicines administration was not carried out effectively, and the systems governing it were not working well.
  • Medicines stock records were not always accurate, and medicines were not always stored safely.

Written by AI from the report text and checked against it. Not an official CQC statement. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the full report on CQC.

Care provided

Dementia
Residential

Specialist care

Dementia
Physical disabilities

Facilities

Communal Lounge
Dining Area
En-suite rooms
Gardens
Wheelchair Access

Food hygiene rating

Very good

Food Standards Agency · inspected June 2026

What's nearby

GP surgery500 m
A&E: New Cross Hospital1.4 miles
  • Near a main road

Straight-line distances. Road and rail noise from government strategic noise mapping (modelled, not measured). A&E departments from the NHS website.

What’s in the area

Outdoor Spaces

  • AllotmentsPlentiful
  • Play SpaceAmple
  • Golf CourseSparse
  • Public ParkPlentiful
  • Tennis CourtAdequate
  • Bowling GreenAdequate
  • Playing FieldPlentiful

Local Amenities

  • Pubs & BarsSparse
  • Restaurants & CafesSparse
  • Retail ShoppingSparse
  • SupermarketsPlentiful
  • TakeawaysAmple

Local crime statistics

595 recorded crimes in the local area (July 2026)

Top categories:

Violent crime46%
Shoplifting12%
Public order7%
Criminal damage & arson6%

Source: data.police.uk · within 1 mile

Fees and funding

Care typeWeekly feeSource
Residential careFees on request—
Dementia careFees on request—
Funding accepted
Not stated

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Care fee trajectory

Indicative weekly fee by year, against what Wolverhampton pays care homes.
YearCouncil rate (per week)
2024£667
2025£710

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Local health safety net

Meadowcroft Residential Care Home is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is New Cross Hospital, 1.4 miles away. The local GP practice is SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 0.3 miles away.

Nearest hospital · A&E
New Cross Hospital · 1.4 mi
Nearest GP
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE · 0.3 mi

Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.

Community & connection in Wolverhampton

Local clubs, charities and support groups that help older residents stay active and connected.

Charity

Wolverhampton Elder Asians and Disabled

we provide a day drop in centre with social, educational and recreational activities. we reduce isolation of elders by providing awareness raising sessions, advice and information and befriending.…

0.9 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1096653)
Charity

Age Concern Wolverhampton

Advice and information Supportive Hospital Discharge ServiceHealth and Wellbeing Support ServiceTelephone Befriending ServiceIT training and supportHandypersonSupport for volunteer-led activity groups

1.4 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1051232)
Charity

Hope Community Project Wolverhampton

To reach out and support the most vulnerable and isolated people in the community Door knocking,outreach Support at home ESOL support for speakers of other languages, emotional, practical…

1.6 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1139362)
Charity

Zion City Tabernacle

Christian worship, Biblical studies, Evangelism, Children's Sunday School, Weddings, Funerals & Infant Dedication, Counselling & Guidance, Relieving Poverty, weekly Senior Citizens Day Centre,…

1.9 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1141055)
Charity

Dudley Stroke Association

To provide help advice, support, information to people who have suffered a stroke & family and friends. To raise awareness into stroke and its effects & how to reduce the risk. Promote setting up…

6.0 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1100960)
Charity

Walsall Community Transport Limited

Our objectives are for the advancement of education and relief of poverty, sickness, old age and distress through the provision of transport, advice and assistance. Our main purpose is social care…

7.2 miles away · Source: Charity Commission (1044133)

Part of SCL Care

Meadowcroft Residential Care Home is one of 3 homes run by SCL Care on AskBart. See how the group's homes are rated and where it operates.

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Information last reviewed October 2026.

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