Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 3 years ago↓ Down from GoodNew owner since March 2024
SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
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. ?
The home changed owner in March 2024. Its rating dates from before the change. ?
This rating was carried over from the home's previous registration, usually after a change of owner. ?
L'Arche Kent Faith House is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 90 other homes in Kent.
79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
An independent residential care home in Canterbury, Kent, L'Arche Kent Faith House is run by an organisation of the same name. It has 4 beds. Its CQC registration covers older people, younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. The typical home in Kent has 24 beds, so this one is on the small side.
5 of L'Arche’s 7 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). L'Arche has run the home since March 2024, when it changed owner. Canterbury Adult Support Unit, 0.2 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in June 2015. 90% of homes in Kent also score 5. In Kent, 79% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in February 2023. It was Requires improvement for safe and well-led as well. For effective, caring and responsive, the rating was Good. The rating was carried over from a previous registration, which usually happens when a home changes owner. Its previous rating, in May 2018, was Good, so the home has slipped.
