Care home · Ilford
St Lukes Care Home
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- 330 Ilford Lane, Ilford, IG1 2LT
- Run by
- Northbrook Homes Limited (2 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home
- Beds
- 5 (registered with CQC)
- Nursing care
- No, residential care only (CQC registration)
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- February 2020 (6 years)
- Registered manager
- Marie Francoise Danielle Larauce
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2005 (21 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 05526108)
- Last CQC check
- 28 Mar 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £1,450–£1,780 a week for residential care. Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
More in Redbridge: Care homes in Redbridge (77) · Best rated care homes in Redbridge · Care homes for learning disability care in Redbridge · Care homes for mental health care in Redbridge
Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-8290402134
The service in brief
Registered with CQC as a residential care home, St Lukes Care Home is based in Ilford, run by Northbrook Homes Limited. Its registered specialisms include learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (March 2025). It is one of 77 CQC-registered care homes in and around Redbridge; 61 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Budgeting for this home
We estimate St Lukes Care Home at £1,450–£1,780 a week for residential care, based on published prices in the region. Over a year that is roughly £75k–£93k.
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From the latest CQC inspection
- We were on site on both of these dates at the service.
- The service is registered to support up to 5 people with learning disabilities or mental health needs.
- We expect health and social care providers to guarantee people with a learning disability the choices, dignity, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted.
- People and their relatives felt the service was safe.
Inspected 24 January 2022; report published 9 February 2022. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
How it fits locally
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other care homes are all within 3 miles, 19 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Seabrooke Manor Care Home, under 0.5 miles away.
1 of the 23 nearest rated care homes has a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Loxford ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS North East London ICB.
Within about a 10-minute walk there is a GP surgery (5 min), a pharmacy (6 min), a shop (1 min), a park (6 min), a café (2 min) and a bus stop (1 min), which matters for residents who can go out and for visiting family.
The ratings in context
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for St Lukes Care Home: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 59 of the 70 other care homes in Redbridge that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Responsive at 71%, averaging 74% overall.
Scores behind the rating
Under its newer approach, CQC marks each "quality statement" from 1 to 4 and converts the marks into a percentage per area. Averaged across the five areas, St Lukes Care Home scores 74%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 75%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
Responsive 71%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future2 · Some shortfalls
Well-led 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 6 December 2024, published 28 March 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Rating history
- Sep 2021
- Feb 2022
- Mar 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 9 February 2022
- CQC inspection report 7 September 2021
Finding it
- Ward
- Loxford
- Parliamentary constituency
- Ilford South
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS North East London Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Care homes in IG1 (21)
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Around the building
- Bus stop 20 m (1 min walk) · 12 stops within 600 m
- Railway station Barking Park, 1.0 km (13 min walk)
- GP surgery AT Medics / The Loxford Practice, 400 m (5 min walk)
- Pharmacy Woodlands Pharmacy, 480 m (6 min walk)
- Shop Gerry's Convenience, 50 m (1 min walk)
- Park Loxford Park, 460 m (6 min walk)
- Café Chaiwalla, 170 m (2 min walk)
- Place of worship Catholic Church of SS. Mary and Erconwald, 140 m (2 min walk)
- Library Redbridge Central Library, 980 m (12 min walk)
Distances are as the crow flies, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); real walking routes will be longer and may include hills or busy roads.
Local area facts: ONS and NHS geography via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence.
CQC ratings, area by area
- Safe75% score58 of 71 in Redbridge
- Effective75% score65 of 71 in Redbridge
- Caring75% score70 of 71 in Redbridge
- Responsive71% score65 of 71 in Redbridge
- Well-led75% score60 of 71 in Redbridge
As rated by CQC, published 28 March 2025. Under each rating: how many care homes in Redbridge share it.
History with CQC
Registered in February 2020, it has 6 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2021–2025), starting at Requires improvement; it has gone up 0 and down 0 times, and is now Good.
Reports on record: 2, with the most recent dated 9 February 2022.
The company behind St Lukes Care Home
St Lukes Care Home is run by Northbrook Homes Limited (company 05526108), incorporated in 2005, 14 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is care for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or substance misuse.
Northbrook Homes Limited runs 2 CQC-registered services; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
All 2 are in Redbridge, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.
Who the service is registered for
As listed with the regulator.
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How St Lukes Care Home compares
- Rated Good. Across Redbridge, 86% of the 71 rated care homes are Good or Outstanding and 0 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2025) is more recent than 93% of care home ratings in Redbridge.
- With 5 beds it is smaller than 73% of care homes in Redbridge, where the typical home has 8.
- Registered with CQC in 2020: it has been registered longer than 36% of care homes in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical care home in Redbridge lists 3.
Comparison set: every registered care home in Redbridge, CQC data for Oct 2026.
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Questions about St Lukes Care Home
- When was St Lukes Care Home last inspected?
- 28 March 2025 is when the current rating was published, 1 year ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Does St Lukes Care Home support people with dementia?
- No dementia specialism is recorded with CQC. Ask the provider directly if this is likely to matter.
- Is St Lukes Care Home a registered provider?
- It is. The CQC register records St Lukes Care Home as a care home, location ID 1-8290402134 and was rated Good overall in March 2025.
- Where is St Lukes Care Home?
- It is at 330 Ilford Lane, Ilford, IG1 2LT.
- What type of care does St Lukes Care Home provide?
- Registration for St Lukes Care Home covers: residential homes. Check which of these it offers today.
- How did St Lukes Care Home score on each CQC key question?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- What are St Lukes Care Home's fees?
- We don't have published prices from St Lukes Care Home yet. Residential care home typically costs £1,615 a week (average 2026 self-funder fees in London). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Who runs St Lukes Care Home?
- CQC lists Northbrook Homes Limited as the provider responsible for St Lukes Care Home.
- How many residents can St Lukes Care Home take?
- St Lukes Care Home is registered for up to 5 residents. Ask about current vacancies and whether rooms have en-suite facilities.
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Source: the CQC register as of Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0), with our own analysis. Anything marked "in the provider's own words" comes from the provider. The Care Panel does not provide care.