Skip to main content
Care Comparison home
Menu

SeeAbility - Kent Supported Living

SeeAbility - Kent Supported Living is registered for home care and supported living in Birchington, run by The Royal School for the Blind. CQC rated it Good overall in July 2022 (last checked 1 July 2022). It is registered to support older people, people with a physical disability, people with a sensory impairment and people with a learning disability or autism.

  • Home care
  • Supported living

Laburnum House, 2 Station Road, Birchington, CT7 9DQ

What CQC says

Overall rating

Goodrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

The service is performing well and meeting expectations.

Read the CQC report (opens in a new tab)

Last checked by CQC: 1 July 2022.

See this service on the CQC website (opens in a new tab)

The five key questions

CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.

  • Is it safe?

    Goodrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

  • Is it effective?

    Goodrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

  • Is it caring?

    Goodrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

  • Is it responsive to people’s needs?

    Goodrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

  • Is it well-led?

    Requires improvementrated 4 years ago (1 July 2022)

Not sure what the ratings mean? Read how CQC ratings work.

Understanding this rating

Plain facts about how CQC rates and inspects services, as CQC describes them. This is not advice and not a rating of ours.

This rating is from July 2022. That is more than 2 years ago. A service can change a lot in that time, for better or worse. CQC decides when to inspect again.

CQC rated it Good overall. It rated “Well-led” as Requires improvement.

What CQC looks at

  • Well-led: Requires improvement

    CQC checks how well the service is run. It looks at the managers and leaders, the culture, how the service checks and improves its own quality, and whether staff feel able to speak up.

    Questions you could ask

    • Who is the registered manager, and how can families contact them?
    • How do you check the quality of care yourselves?
    • How can staff raise worries, and how are they supported when they do?

Questions you could ask

  • What has changed since the last inspection?

How often CQC looks again

There is no fixed timetable. CQC decides when to look at a service again. It uses the information it holds about the service and how much risk it sees. It may look sooner if it hears of concerns.

See this service on the CQC website (opens in a new tab)

More about how CQC works, with sources

About this service

Type of care
Home care, Supported living
Who it supports
Older people, Physical disability, Sensory impairment, Learning disability or autism, Mental health needs, Younger adults
Registered since
14 January 2021
Local council area
Kent

Who runs it

Provider
The Royal School for the Blind
Brand
BRAND SeeAbility
Kind of provider
Company or organisation

Other services from this provider

and 15 more.

Care Comparison

Contains Care Quality Commission data © Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Care Comparison is independent and is not connected to or endorsed by CQC.

Contains Care Inspectorate data © Care Inspectorate, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Care Comparison is independent and is not connected to or endorsed by the Care Inspectorate.

Contains information from Care Inspectorate Wales © Crown copyright 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Care Comparison is independent and is not connected to or endorsed by Care Inspectorate Wales.

Contains information from the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (via OpenDataNI). Care Comparison is independent and is not connected to or endorsed by RQIA.

A community project byThe API Guys (opens in a new tab)