One Step South Domiciliary Care Agency
1-14 Martello Industrial Estate, Folkestone, CT19 6DR · Kent · South East
Community based adult social care services · operated by CareTech Community Services Limited, part of CareTech Community Services
Diligence verdict
CQC has not yet published an overall rating for this service — a common position for a recently registered home, and not a judgement either way. Across this operator's wider portfolio, 8 of this operator's 26 rated homes are below Good.
- Operator's wider portfolio
- 8 of 26 of CareTech Community Services 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 question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Not Rated | — |
| Effective | Not Rated | — |
| Caring | Not Rated | — |
| Responsive | Not Rated | — |
| Well-led | Not Rated | — |
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 — 26 other locations
Other active services registered to CareTech Community Services Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Byron Court | Good11 Sep 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Bedford |
| CareTech Community Services Hanley DCA | Good14 Apr 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Stoke-on-Trent |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 15 Brooklyn Road | Good4 Nov 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Gloucestershire |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 19 Wheelwright Road | Requires improvement28 Mar 2024 | Birmingham |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 196 High Street | Good3 Jul 2025 | Hertfordshire |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 25 Garrads Road | Good19 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Lambeth |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 34 Porthill Bank | Requires improvement10 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Staffordshire |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 68 West Park Road | Requires improvement20 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Sandwell |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 7 Russell Hill | Good11 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Croydon |
| CareTech Community Services Limited - 82 Chaucer Road | Requires improvement6 May 2025 | Bedford |
| CareTech South East Supported Living | Good24 May 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Hillingdon |
| Caretech Community Services Ltd (East Anglia) | Good25 Mar 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Cambridgeshire |
…and 14 more. See the full group view.
Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
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- 6 Apr 2018
- Service type
- Community based adult social care services
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-4859047139
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.