L'Arche Kent Faith House
21-22, Canterbury, CT2 7TH · Kent · South East
CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 2 of this operator's 13 rated services are below Good.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 9 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs oldWell-ledRequires improvement, published 9 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
- Age of rating
- 3 years old — published 9 Feb 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 2 of 13 of L'Arche's rated services are Requires improvement or Inadequate.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home without nursing
- Beds
- 4
- Registered with CQC
- 27 Mar 2024
- Run by
- L'Arche
Who this service supports
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Care home without nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 9 Feb 2023 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 11 May 2018 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 11 May 2018 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 11 May 2018 |
| Well-led | Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old | 9 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 published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 13 other locations
Other active services registered to L'Arche. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| L'Arche Bognor Regis | Good, published 23 Dec 2025 | West Sussex |
| L'Arche Bognor Regis Bethany | Good, published 23 Jul 2024 | West Sussex |
| L'Arche Bognor Regis Jericho | Requires improvement, published 24 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| L'Arche Bognor Regis Zacchaeus | Good, published 7 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| L'Arche Ipswich | Outstanding, published 31 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| L'Arche Kent | Good, published 18 May 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Kent |
| L'Arche Kent The Rainbow | Good, published 3 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Kent |
| L'Arche Liverpool | Good, published 16 May 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Liverpool |
| L'Arche London | Good, published 17 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Lambeth |
| L'Arche London Gothic Lodge | Good, published 21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Lambeth |
| L'Arche Manchester - St Paul's Office | Outstanding, published 13 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Manchester |
| L'Arche Preston | Requires improvement, published 22 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Lancashire |
…and 1 more.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-19032396705
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.