La Rosa Residential Care Home

97 Babington Road, Streatham, London, SW16 6AN

02077879694

Care Type

Residential Care

Inspection date

11 January 2022

Provider

La Rosa Homes Ltd

Beds

7 beds

About La Rosa Residential Care Home

La Rosa Residential Care Home brings a sense of warmth and familiarity to the Lambeth community, offering a smaller, more personal setting where residents can feel genuinely at home. The team here understands how much it means to families to find a place where their loved ones are treated with dignity and kindness. For those exploring care options in the area, La Rosa aims to provide a supportive and comfortable environment that feels less like a facility and more like a home.

La Rosa Residential provides accommodation and personal care for up to seven mostly older males with mental health needs, with some residents also living with dementia. At inspection, the service was supporting six people in one adapted building.

Inspectors found that some aspects of the service were not consistently safe or well-managed, placing residents at unnecessary risk of harm. The provider's oversight and scrutiny systems were not operated effectively, with examples identified during the inspection of failings in how the service managed its responsibilities.

Source: CQC inspection report, 4 February 2022

Specialist Care

Mental healthYounger adults

Fees and availability

We have not verified a current weekly fee for this home. Ask for a written quote based on the room and care needed, including any extra charges.

Check current vacancies, the admission assessment and visiting arrangements directly with the home.

Care and inspection details

Checked against the CQC register on 20 September 2026. This is a check of published information, not a visit to the home.

Registered service: Care home service without nursing
Registered capacity: 7 places — this is not a vacancy count
Registration checked: Registered · SW16 6AN

Registered care categories

Caring for adults under 65 yrs; Mental health conditions.

These describe the registration. The home must assess whether it can meet the individual person's needs and whether a place is available.

CQC ratings in more detail

Overall rating shown by CQC: Requires improvement.

Rating report published 4 February 2022. Latest inspection date recorded: 11 January 2022.

Safe: Requires improvement
Effective: Requires improvement
Caring: Good
Responsive: Requires improvement
Well-led: Requires improvement

Questions prompted by these ratings

Safe: What changes have been made to medicines, staffing and safeguarding since this rating?
Effective: How are staff training, nutrition and health outcomes checked now?
Responsive: How are care plans, activities and complaints adapted to each resident?
Well-led: What has changed in management, checks and oversight since this rating?

These are questions for your visit, not a claim about conditions today.

Read La Rosa Residential Care Home's CQC record and reports.

Contains Care Quality Commission information under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Ratings and registration details can change after the date checked.

5 Questions to Ask on Your Visit

When visiting La Rosa Residential Care Home, consider asking...

1.What happens if my relative's care needs increase significantly -- will they have to move?
2.How do you handle concerns or complaints from families?
3.What does the monthly fee cover and what will cost extra?
4.How do you keep families informed about their relative's day-to-day wellbeing?
5.What happens if my relative is unhappy here?

5 Things to Look For on Your Visit

When you visit La Rosa Residential Care Home, look out for...

1.Do staff greet residents by name and stop to chat?
2.Are residents dressed, up and occupied, or sitting alone in front of a TV?
3.Does the home smell fresh and feel clean without being clinical?
4.Do residents look comfortable and at ease, or anxious and withdrawn?
5.Does the manager answer your questions openly or deflect?

Could the NHS fund La Rosa Residential Care Home's fees?

The average nursing home costs £1,535 per week. That's £79,820 a year. NHS Continuing Healthcare could cover all of it. No means test, no contribution from you.

Find out if the NHS could fund these fees