The Ark Care Lodge Limited
The Ark Care Lodge Limited is a care home in Leicester. CQC rated it Good overall in January 2025 (last checked 3 January 2025). It has 18 beds. It is registered to support people with a learning disability or autism.
- Care home without nursing
94-96 Evington Lane, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 5PP
What CQC says
Overall rating
The service is performing well and meeting expectations.
Up from Requires improvement, 25 February 2020.
Last checked by CQC: 3 January 2025.
The five key questions
CQC rates each service on five questions. Each has its own rating.
Is it safe?
Goodrated 1 year ago (3 January 2025)Is it effective?
Goodrated 1 year ago (3 January 2025)Is it caring?
Goodrated 1 year ago (3 January 2025)Is it responsive to people’s needs?
Goodrated 1 year ago (3 January 2025)Is it well-led?
Requires improvementrated 1 year ago (3 January 2025)
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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.
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?
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.
- Requires improvement25 February 2020Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Good22 June 2017Read the report (opens in a new tab)
- Requires improvement6 April 2016Read the report (opens in a new tab)
About this service
- Type of care
- Care home without nursing
- Who it supports
- Learning disability or autism
- Number of beds
- 18
- Nursing care
- No, personal care only
- Registered since
- 23 November 2010
- Local council area
- Leicester
Who runs it
- Provider
- The Ark Care Lodge Limited
- Kind of provider
- Company or organisation