Requires improvementSafe: Requires improvementEffective: GoodCaring: GoodResponsive: GoodWell-led: Requires improvementRated 5 years ago↓ Down from Good
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. ?
Avante Care and Support Limited runs Riverdale Court, a residential care home in Welling, Bexley with room for 80 residents. Its CQC registration covers older people, people with dementia, younger adults and people with a learning disability or autism. The typical home in Bexley has 39 beds, so this one is bigger than average.
8 of Avante Care and Support Limited’s 11 rated homes are Good or Outstanding (compare care home groups). 167 Lodge Hill, 1.3 km away, is the closest home rated Good. Food hygiene inspectors scored the kitchen 5 out of 5 in September 2026. 95% of homes in Bexley also score 5. In Bexley, 75% of rated care homes are Good or Outstanding (England 82%).
The current CQC rating is Requires improvement, published in August 2021. Safe and well-led were also Requires improvement. Effective, caring and responsive were rated Good. Before that, in December 2019, it was rated Good. At over 5 years old, this rating is older than most. 43% of ratings in Bexley are as old (how rating age varies by council).
