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Community based adult social care services

Lifeways Community Care (South London)

The Lansdowne Building, Croydon, CR9 2ER · Croydon · London

Community based adult social care services · operated by Lifeways Community Care Limited, part of Lifeways Community Care

CQC overall rating
Good22 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (22 Feb 2023), the rating is 3 years old, and 10 of this operator's 35 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
Well-ledRequires improvement22 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 22 Feb 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
10 of 35 of Lifeways Community Care Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2023
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2023
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2023
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2023
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old22 Feb 2023

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 48 other locations

Other active services registered to Lifeways Community Care Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
1 & 2 Flax CottagesRequires improvement29 Sep 2025Northumberland
Abbeymoor Neurodisability CentreGood12 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldGateshead
Ash HouseRequires improvement20 Jun 2025Coventry
BarleycombeGood17 Dec 2025Suffolk
Beeton GrangeGood31 Dec 2025Birmingham
BulwellGood22 Jan 2026Nottingham
Cambridge ParkGood29 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRichmond upon Thames
Elm Tree HouseGood13 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRochdale
Greenlands ViewRequires improvement2 Dec 2023Birmingham
Kingdom HouseGood23 Sep 2025Rotherham
Lifeways BrightonGood30 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs oldBrighton and Hove
Lifeways Community CareNot RatedLeicestershire

…and 36 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
30 Nov 2021
Service type
Community based adult social care services
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-12100652788

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.