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- Reading, RG31 7DW
- 66 beds
The Lawn Residential Care Home
The Lawn Residential Care Home is a care home in Alton, run by Friends of the Elderly. CQC rated it Requires improvement overall in January 2026 (last checked 22 January 2026). It has 31 beds. It is registered to support people living with dementia, older people and younger adults.
- Care home without nursing
119 London Road, Holybourne, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 4ER
What CQC says
Overall rating
Requires improvementrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)
The service is not performing as well as it should.
Down from Good, 9 March 2023.
Last checked by CQC: 22 January 2026.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Requires improvementrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)Is it effective?
Goodrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)Is it caring?
Goodrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 8 months ago (22 January 2026)
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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.
What CQC looks at
Safe: Requires improvement
CQC checks whether people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. It looks at safeguarding, how risks are managed, staffing levels and training, medicines, and keeping the place clean to stop infections.
Questions you could ask
- How are medicines looked after and given on time?
- How do you decide how many staff are on duty, day and night?
- When something goes wrong, what do you do, and how do you tell families?
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?
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.
Earlier ratings
Overall ratings this service had before, newest first. These are CQC’s own earlier ratings.
- Good9 March 2023Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement22 July 2022Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good12 July 2018Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good31 March 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good19 August 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Inadequate28 January 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home without nursing
- Who it supports
- Dementia, Older people, Younger adults
- Number of beds
- 31
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 7 January 2011
- Local council area
- Hampshire
Who runs it
- Provider
- Friends of the Elderly
- Brand
- BRAND Friends of the Elderly
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation
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