SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Good
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Good
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Good
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Good
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement
CQC hasn't inspected this home for more than 5 years. It re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating doesn't count against a home on this site, but it may not reflect the home today. ?
Ivy Cottage is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 43 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
Ivy Cottage is a 5-bed residential care home in Ashford, Kent, run by Canterbury Oast Trust. It is registered to care for people with a learning disability or autism. That is smaller than most homes in Kent, where the typical home has 24 beds.
7 of Canterbury Oast Trust’s 8 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it. 43 other homes in Kent share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”.
CQC's latest rating, from July 2018, is Good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. Well-led was rated Requires improvement. Its rating before that, in June 2016, was the same. The rating is more than 5 years old. In Kent, 45% of ratings are that old (see how rating age varies by council).
