SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?66%Good
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Infection prevention and controlSome shortfalls
Medicines optimisationSome shortfalls
Safe environmentsSome shortfalls
Involving people to manage risksGood
Learning cultureGood
Safe and effective staffingGood
Safe systems, pathways and transitionsGood
SafeguardingGood
EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?75%Good
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Assessing needsGood
Consent to care and treatmentGood
Delivering evidence-based care and treatmentGood
How staff, teams and services work togetherGood
Monitoring and improving outcomesGood
Supporting people to live healthier livesGood
CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?75%Good
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Independence, choice and controlGood
Kindness, compassion and dignityGood
Responding to people's immediate needsGood
Treating people as individualsGood
Workforce wellbeing and enablementGood
ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?75%Good
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Care provision, integration and continuityGood
Equity in accessGood
Equity in experiences and outcomesGood
Listening to and involving peopleGood
Person-centred careGood
Planning for the futureGood
Providing InformationGood
Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?61%Requires improvement
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Capable, compassionate and inclusive leadersSome shortfalls
Governance, management and sustainabilitySome shortfalls
Learning, improvement and innovationSome shortfalls
Partnerships and communitiesSome shortfalls
Freedom to speak upGood
Shared direction and cultureGood
Workforce equality, diversity and inclusionGood
Percentages are CQC scores from its newer way of assessing homes. ?
CQC scored 33 standards: 26 good, 7 below good. Use “See the breakdown” on each key question for its standards. ?
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 Ark Care Lodge Limited is in the Good, with an area to improve tier ?, with 15 other homes in Leicester.
80% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).
An independent residential care home in Leicester, The Ark Care Lodge Limited is run by an organisation of the same name. It has 18 beds. CQC registers it to look after people with a learning disability or autism.
Of the 6 closest rated homes, none is rated above it. 15 other homes in Leicester share its tier, “Good, with an area to improve”. The kitchen has a food hygiene rating of 5 (very good), from March 2025. 95% of homes in Leicester also score 5.
The current CQC rating is Good, published in January 2025. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were also Good. CQC rated well-led as Requires improvement. Its previous rating, in February 2020, was Requires improvement, so the home has improved. The typical rating in Leicester is about 3 years old, so this one is fairly recent. CQC found some shortfalls in “infection prevention and control”, one of 7 standards out of 33 scored below good.
