Community based adult social care services

Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Downlands Court

Roundhay Avenue, Peacehaven, BN10 8TG · East Sussex · South East

Community based adult social care services · operated by Care at Home Services (South East) Limited, part of Cera Care

CQC overall rating

Good5 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Good overall, but Well-led is Requires improvement (5 Jan 2019), the rating is 7 years old, and 3 of this operator's 13 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on: Well-ledRequires improvement5 Jan 2019rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating: 7 years old — published 5 Jan 2019. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio: 3 of 13 of Care at Home Services (South East) 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	Goodrating 3+ yrs old	5 Jan 2019
Effective	Goodrating 3+ yrs old	5 Jan 2019
Caring	Goodrating 3+ yrs old	5 Jan 2019
Responsive	Goodrating 3+ yrs old	5 Jan 2019
Well-led	Requires improvementrating 3+ yrs old	5 Jan 2019

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 — 15 other locations

Other active services registered to Care at Home Services (South East) Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

Name	Overall rating (published)	Local authority
Beech Tree Total Care - Ashford Extra Care Schemes	Not yet rated	Kent
Beech Tree Total Care - Bradstow Court	Not yet rated	Kent
Beech Tree Total Care - Copperfields	Not yet rated	Kent
Beech Tree Total Care – Ashford	Good7 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old	Kent
Beech Tree Total Care – Dover and Hythe	Good21 Apr 2022rating 3+ yrs old	Kent
Beech Tree Total Care – Thanet	Requires improvement6 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs old	Kent
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Bentley Grange	Good3 Apr 2020rating 3+ yrs old	East Sussex
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Bexhill, Hastings and Rother	Good5 Nov 2019rating 3+ yrs old	East Sussex
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable	Requires improvement24 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old	Kent
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Cranbrook	Requires improvement15 Jul 2021rating 3+ yrs old	East Sussex
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Eastbourne, Hailsham and the Weald	Good18 May 2026	East Sussex
Care at Home Services (South East) Limited – Margaret House	Good5 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs old	East Sussex

…and 3 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration

Registered with CQC: 13 Mar 2018
Service type: Community based adult social care services
Sector: Social Care Org
On CQC’s site: cqc.org.uk/location/1-4955157387

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.