{"name":"KEYS ACE LIMITED","company_number":"05556312","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2005-09-07","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Maybrook House Third Floor, Queensway, Halesowen, United Kingdom, B63 4AH","postcode":"B63 4AH","sic_codes":[{"code":87900,"description":"Other residential care activities not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"ALLIANCE CARE & EDUCATION LIMITED","changed_on":"2019-08-02"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Audit Exemption Subsidiary","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2025-03-31","next_due":"2026-12-31"},"employees":{"count":50,"accounts_date":"2017-09-30"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2017-09-30","net_assets":324073,"cash":157029,"average_employees":50},{"financial_date":"2016-09-30","net_assets":376793,"cash":146478},{"financial_date":"2015-09-30","net_assets":386463,"cash":155197},{"financial_date":"2014-09-30","net_assets":330629,"cash":205359},{"financial_date":"2013-09-30","net_assets":340906,"cash":196491}],"officers":{"current":4,"resigned":7,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"KEYS ACE LIMITED operates as a subsidiary vehicle within the privately equity-backed Keys Group, providing residential care and education services for vulnerable children under SIC 87900. Its modest balance sheet (net assets c.£324k in 2017), small company status, and 50-employee headcount are entirely consistent with a single-site or small portfolio operator that has been absorbed into a larger consolidation strategy. The entity benefits from group-level resources and a defensible niche position in a structurally growing market, but its standalone financial profile is limited and increasingly dependent on intra-group arrangements. The 2019 rebrand and ownership migration through Keys Bidco reflect the broader sector trend of private equity consolidation in UK children's social care.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/keys-ace","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05556312","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/keys-ace/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/keys-ace"}