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L'Arche Kent Faith House

21-22, Canterbury, CT2 7TH · Kent · South East

4 beds · operated by L'Arche

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement9 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old

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.

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 3 of this operator's 14 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
SafeRequires improvement9 Feb 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement9 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
3 of 14 of L'Arche's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate.

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

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old9 Feb 2023
EffectiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 May 2018
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 May 2018
ResponsiveGoodrating 3+ yrs old11 May 2018
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old9 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 — 13 other locations

Other active services registered to L'Arche. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
L'Arche Bognor RegisGood23 Dec 2025West Sussex
L'Arche Bognor Regis BethanyGood23 Jul 2024West Sussex
L'Arche Bognor Regis JerichoRequires improvement24 May 2022rating 3+ yrs oldWest Sussex
L'Arche Bognor Regis ZacchaeusGood7 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs oldWest Sussex
L'Arche IpswichOutstanding31 Jul 2019rating 3+ yrs oldSuffolk
L'Arche KentGood18 May 2023rating 3+ yrs oldKent
L'Arche Kent The RainbowGood3 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs oldKent
L'Arche LiverpoolGood16 May 2019rating 3+ yrs oldLiverpool
L'Arche LondonGood17 Aug 2018rating 3+ yrs oldLambeth
L'Arche London Gothic LodgeGood21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs oldLambeth
L'Arche Manchester - St Paul's OfficeOutstanding13 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs oldManchester
L'Arche PrestonRequires improvement22 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs oldLancashire

…and 1 more.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
27 Mar 2024
Beds
4
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 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.