Which agencies provide home care across the East?

One thousand eight hundred and eleven agencies registered to deliver care in people's own homes are listed for the East. They range from national names operating local branches to small independent providers covering a handful of towns. Coverage is the first filter to apply, because an agency may be registered in the area without its rounds reaching a particular village or street. Each entry links to a profile showing the Care Quality Commission rating and the inspection findings behind it.

How does home care differ from moving into a residential or nursing home?

Home care brings a carer to the door for planned visits while your relative stays in their own house, keeping their routine, neighbours and possessions around them. A residential home provides accommodation with support available throughout the day and night, and a nursing home adds registered nurses on site for clinical needs. Home care suits people whose needs come at predictable points in the day, and it can be increased as circumstances change. Where supervision is needed around the clock, a residential setting is usually the more realistic option.

What should I ask a home care agency in the East before signing anything?

Ask how many carers will visit in a typical fortnight and whether the same faces come back, because continuity shapes the experience more than any other single factor. Ask how late calls and staff sickness are handled, and whether the family is notified. Ask how visits are logged, whether relatives can see the records, and how medication support is documented. Finally, ask about minimum call lengths, notice periods and any charge for travel or bank holidays, and ask for all of it in writing.

How is a care needs assessment arranged in the East?

Contact the adult social care team at the local authority covering the address where your relative lives and ask for a care needs assessment. Anyone who appears to need support is entitled to one regardless of income or savings, and a family member can make the request on someone's behalf. A practitioner will look at daily tasks, mobility, medication and safety, then set out what support would meet the need. A financial assessment is carried out separately to establish who pays for what.

Will the local authority pay for care at home?

It depends on the outcome of both the needs assessment and the financial assessment. The local authority applies the national means test, so capital above the upper threshold means paying privately, while capital below it can bring a contribution towards the cost. Where support is funded, you may be offered a direct payment instead of an arranged service, which allows you to select the agency yourself. It is also worth claiming attendance allowance, which is not means tested and can be used towards care at home.

How early should a family start looking for home care?

A few weeks is usually enough to compare agencies properly, arrange assessments and let a package start gently rather than all at once. Starting early leaves room to trial a smaller number of visits and increase them as needs become clearer. When care is needed on discharge from hospital the timescale collapses to days, and a short term package may be arranged for you while longer term choices are made. In that situation you can still change agency later, so treat the first arrangement as a starting point.

Home Care in the East

The East has 1,820 CQC registered home care agencies. 861 are rated Good, 61 Outstanding, 145 Requires improvement, 9 Inadequate, and 744 have not yet been rated. 895 of the 1,820 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

East at a glance

What the local numbers say about home care across East, adding up every council in the region.

Hourly care visits, East: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies.
People aged 75 and over: 697,000. Rising to 807,000 by 2035, up 16%
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 91,000. Rising to 113,000 by 2035, up 25%
People aged 85 and over: 188,000. Rising to 279,000 by 2035, up 48%
Agencies in East, last 12 months: 53 opened, 91 closed

Powered by Orrery Intelligence. Market model built 22 October 2026 (ONS 2022 based population projections, CQC register), published care home prices, council planning records.

Choosing between home care agencies in the East

Home care is bought in hours

Home care is bought in hours, and that single fact shapes almost everything that follows. A visit of fifteen minutes covers a prompt and a check. An hour allows for a wash, a meal and a conversation that is not rushed. Before comparing agencies, work out roughly how many visits a day are needed, at what times, and what has to happen during each one, because that is the information an agency needs in order to say honestly whether it can cover the round. Of the one thousand eight hundred and eleven agencies listed across the East, only those whose rounds already reach your relative's street are worth a phone call.

Reading inspection ratings on a list this size

The Care Quality Commission inspects home care agencies as organisations rather than as buildings, so a rating reflects recruitment, training, medication handling, call scheduling and how complaints are dealt with. Across this listing you will find agencies rated Outstanding, agencies rated Good, agencies rated Requires Improvement, and agencies carrying no rating at all because they have registered too recently to be inspected. An unrated agency is not automatically a poor one, but it does mean there is no independent judgement to lean on, so ask more questions and ask for references. Where a report exists, read the section on safety and the section on responsiveness rather than stopping at the overall word.

Questions worth asking before anything is signed

Ask how many different carers will come in a typical fortnight, since continuity matters more to most people than anything else on the contract. Ask what happens when a carer is ill or running late, and whether you are told. Ask how the agency records visits, whether relatives can see those records, and how medication is signed for. Ask about the minimum call length, the notice period, and what is charged for travel or bank holidays. An agency confident in its own service will answer all of it without hesitating.

Arranging and paying for care at home in the East

Start with a care needs assessment

Anyone who appears to need care and support can ask the local authority for a care needs assessment, whatever their income or savings, and there is no obligation to accept whatever is proposed at the end of it. The assessment looks at what someone can manage alone, what they cannot, and what support would close the gap, and it produces a written record you can use when comparing agencies. A carer looking after a relative can request a separate carer's assessment in their own right. Where the need has followed a hospital admission, the ward team will usually set the process in motion before discharge.

What it costs and who contributes

Home care is normally charged by the hour, with shorter calls priced proportionately and higher rates common at weekends and overnight. A financial assessment decides how much of that the local authority meets, using the national means test, and anyone with capital above the upper threshold arranges and pays for care themselves. Where support is funded, it may arrive as a managed service or as a direct payment that lets you choose the agency yourself. Attendance allowance is worth checking too, since it is not means tested and is not affected by savings. Ask any agency for its full rate card in writing before agreeing to a start date.

1,820 home care in the East (showing 1–50)

Forever Unique Care · 16 Burdock Drive, Basildon, Essex, SS15 5LX
Home care · Run by Forever Unique Care Limited
At Forever Unique Care, we provide home care support to people living in Basildon and the surrounding areas of Essex. We work with older adults, younger adults, and people who simply need a bit of extra help to stay comfortable and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Availl · No 9 Journey Campus, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0AX
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Availl Limited
Availl is a home care agency in Cambridge, supporting people in their own homes across Cambridgeshire. We work with older people and younger adults, with people living with dementia, with people who have a learning disability, with...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Niche Care · 2nd Floor, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1BN
Home care · Run by Niche Care Limited
Niche Care Norfolk is a home care agency in Thetford, supporting people in their own homes across Norfolk. We work with older people and younger adults, with people living with dementia, with people who have a learning disability, with...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Prime Care Domiciliary · The Colchester Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8JX
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Prime Care Domiciliary Limited
Prime Care Domiciliary Essex supports people in their own homes in Colchester and the surrounding area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Gemstone Care · 48 Traps Hill, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1TB
Home care · CQC Outstanding · Run by Gemstone Care Ltd
Gemstone Care supports adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults in their own homes in Loughton and the surrounding part of Essex. What our support is for is widening somebody's life rather than managing it. That means asking...
Specialisms: Learning Disability / Autism
Better Home Care · Broadway House, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 7QJ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Better Home Care Ltd
Better Home Care supports people in their own homes in Cambridge and the surrounding area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental health needs,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Onward Connections · Unit 14 The Old Courthouse, Grays, Thurrock, RM17 5DD
Home care · Run by Onward Connections Limited
Onward Connections provides care and support to people in their own homes in Grays and the surrounding part of Thurrock. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, physical disabilities, and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Anaisa Care · Saxon House, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1HT
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Anaisa Services Ltd
Anaisa Care supports people in their own homes in Chelmsford and the surrounding part of Essex. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, physical disabilities, and sight and hearing loss. We...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Fuchsia Homecare · Suffolk House, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4JP
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Fuchsia Homecare Ltd
Here at Fuchsia Homecare, we provide home care support to people across Ipswich and the wider Suffolk area. Our work centres on helping individuals live well in their own homes, on their own terms, and we take that responsibility...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Rosebank Park · Rosebank Park, Harwich, Essex, CO12 4FY
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Orwell Housing Association Limited
Rosebank Park provides support at home for people in Harwich and the surrounding part of Essex. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a learning disability or...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Bluebird Care (Chiltern & Dacorum) · First Floor Unit 34, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 9SB
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Optima Management Limited
Bluebird Care provides support at home for people in Watford and across this part of Hertfordshire, as well as the Chiltern and Dacorum areas. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability
Stuart House - East Wing · St. Johns Street, Peterborough, Peterborough, PE1 5DD
Home care · Run by Lumen Care Services Ltd
Stuart House provides support at home for people in Peterborough and the surrounding area. Our work is practical and personal. A carer comes to your door at an agreed time and helps with whatever has been arranged, whether that is getting...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Swale House Ness M Care Services Cambridgeshire · 110 Swale Avenue, Peterborough, Peterborough, PE4 7GT
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Ness M Care Services Ltd
Here at Swale House Ness M Care, we provide home care support to people living in Peterborough and the surrounding areas of Cambridgeshire. We come to you, supporting you in the place that matters most, your own home, where you feel...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
NCC First Support – Children Specialist Intervention Team · Blithemeadow House, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 8PU
Home care · Run by Norfolk County Council
We are a specialist team supporting children and young people with a physical disability at home in Norwich and across Norfolk. Our work sits alongside families rather than above them, because parents know their own child better than any...
Specialisms: Physical Disability
Zionson Care · Invision House, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 0TY
Home care · Run by Zionson Care Limited
Zionson Care provides support at home for people in Hitchin and the surrounding part of Hertfordshire. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a physical...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
RTS Healthcare Services · 3 Dedman Drive, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2YP
Home care · Run by Global RTS Ltd
RTS Healthcare provides support at home for people in Bishop's Stortford and across Hertfordshire. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a physical disability,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Temple Healthcare · 45 Templemere, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 4EF
Home care · Run by Temple Healthcare Ltd
Temple Healthcare provides support at home for people in Norwich and the surrounding part of Norfolk. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a physical disability...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Compassion PLUS Healthcare · Devonshire Business Centre, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 1GJ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Compassion PLUS Healthcare Ltd
Compassion Plus Healthcare provides support at home for people in Letchworth Garden City and the surrounding part of Hertfordshire. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
18Plus Support · 28 Woodberry Road, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8XG
Home care · Run by 18Plus Support Limited
18Plus Support provides care and support to people in their own homes in Wickford and the surrounding part of Essex. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, mental health needs, physical...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Swift Care Agency · 960 Capability Green, Luton, Luton, LU1 3PE
Home care · Run by Swift Care Agency Limited
We are a home care agency in Luton, supporting people to stay living in their own homes with help that suits the way they actually live. We visit older people, including those living with dementia, along with younger adults, people with a...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Seven Day Care Essex · 62 London Road, Southend-on-sea, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1PG
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Seven Day Care (Essex) Ltd
We provide care at home for people in Southend on Sea and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest well alone. The people we...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
E2K Care · Vitkin Farm, Tiptree, Essex, CO5 0UH
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Executive 2000 Recruitment Ltd
E2K Care provides care at home for people in Tiptree and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers come to you, and the visit covers whatever has been agreed, from help getting washed and dressed to medication, meals, shopping, housework,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Kinect Services · 9 Totman Close, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7UZ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Kinect Services Limited
Kinect provides care at home for people in Rayleigh and across this part of Essex. Our carers visit people in their own houses, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest well alone. The people we...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Paradise Care · Suite 511, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3DA
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Paradise Care Ltd
Paradise Care provides support at home for people in Colchester and across Essex. The people we visit include older people, many of them living with dementia, as well as younger adults, people with a learning disability or autism, people...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders
Carenest Solutions Hertsmere · 4 Imperial Place, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JN
Home care · Run by Carenest Solutions Ltd
Carenest Solutions Hertsmere provides support at home for people in Borehamwood and the surrounding part of Hertfordshire. The people we visit include older people, younger adults, people with a learning disability or autism, people with a...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Five Stars Care Services · Suite B, Colchester, Essex, CO5 9BE
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Five Stars Care Services Ltd
Five Stars Care provides support at home for people in Colchester and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest well alone....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Younger Adults
Trends Healthcare · 18 The Windmills, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 7FD
Home care · Run by Trends Healthcare Ltd
Trends Healthcare Chelmsford provides support at home for people in Chelmsford and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers visit people where they live, and the support is built around what each person actually wants from it. We work...
Specialisms: Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment
Core Care Personnel - Main Office · Office 11, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5AN
Home care · Run by Core Care Personnel Limited
Core Care Personnel provides support at home for people in Harlow and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest well alone....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Bluebell Homecare · Suite 17, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8YB
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Bluebell Homecare Limited
Bluebell Homecare provides support at home for people in Wickford and the surrounding part of Essex. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest well alone....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Universal Care services · Unit 6 Rutherford Centre, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 0UG
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Universal Care Services (UK) Limited
Universal Care in Ipswich provides support at home for people across the town and the surrounding part of Suffolk. Our carers visit people where they live, helping with the parts of the day that have become difficult while leaving the rest...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Green Care Contracts · Suite G, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6NS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Green Care Contracts Limited
Green Care Contracts supports people in their own homes in Harlow and the surrounding part of Essex. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Prestige Nursing · Rooms 21 & 23, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 3PN
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Prestige Nursing Limited
Prestige Nursing Norwich provides care and support to people in their own homes in Norwich and the surrounding part of Norfolk. Because we employ nurses as well as carers, we can take on support that needs clinical skill as well as...
Housing 21 - Shearman Court · Mill Hill, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8DE
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Housing 21
Shearman Court in Haverhill is part of Housing 21, and we provide care and support to people living in their own homes here and nearby. We work with older people, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment
Prestige Healthcare 247 · Pod 4, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6RT
Home care · Run by Prestige Homecare 247 Ltd
Prestige Healthcare 247 provides care and support to people in their own homes in Chelmsford and the surrounding part of Essex. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, mental health needs and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Voyage (DCA) · 25 Scotney Street, Peterborough, Peterborough, PE1 3NG
Home care · Run by Voyage 1 Limited
Voyage in Peterborough provides support to adults in their own homes and tenancies across the area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers learning disabilities and autism and mental health needs. The...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Younger Adults
Comfort Zone Care Services · Unit 1, Luton, Luton, LU2 0HF
Home care · Run by Comfort Zone Care Services Ltd
Comfort Zone Care provides care and support to people in their own homes in Luton and the surrounding area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Dimensions Domiciliary Care Office · 17 Station Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL2 3PJ
Home care · Run by Dimensions (UK) Limited
Dimensions in Hertfordshire supports people in their own homes in St Albans and across the county. We work with adults with a learning disability, autistic adults, older people and younger adults. Our work is usually less about personal...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults
Deben Willow Care · Willow Barn, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0EL
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Deben Willow Care Limited
Deben Willow Care supports people in their own homes in Ipswich and the surrounding part of Suffolk. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism, mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Turning Point - Timberlea (Dom Care) · Redwood Close, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD19 6HW
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Turning Point
Timberlea in Watford, run by Turning Point, provides support to adults in their own homes across the area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers learning disabilities and autism, mental health needs...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
49 Bromham Road · 49 Bromham Road, Bedford, Bedford, MK40 2AA
Home care · Run by 360 Essentials Care Limited
Our team at Bromham Road provides care and support to people in their own homes in Bedford and the surrounding area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, physical disabilities, and sight...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Faiths Care · Weston Business Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8JX
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Faiths Care Ltd
Faiths Care provides care and support to people in their own homes in Colchester and the surrounding part of Essex. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia, learning disabilities and autism,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Empower Care · 111 Derby Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 8DL
Home care · Run by Empower Recruitment Ltd
Empower Care supports people in their own homes in Ipswich and across the surrounding parts of Suffolk. We work with older people, people living with dementia, people living with mental ill health, adults with a physical disability, people...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Homecare 360 · 2 Falcon Gate, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1TW
Home care · Run by Homecare 360 Ltd
Homecare 360 supports people in their own homes in Welwyn Garden City and across this part of Hertfordshire. We work with older people, people living with dementia, adults with a physical disability, people with visual or hearing...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Alyson Homecare · Suite 2, Rochford, Essex, SS4 1AS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Alyson House RCH Ltd
Alyson Homecare supports people in their own homes in Rochford and across this part of Essex. We work with older people, people living with dementia, adults with a learning disability, autistic adults, people living with mental ill health,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders
SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company (CIC) · SPDNS House, Westcliff On Sea, Southend-on-Sea, SS0 9LG
Home care · CQC Good · Run by SPDNS Nurse Care Community Interest Company
SPDNS Nurse Care supports people in their own homes in Westcliff On Sea and across the surrounding area. We work with older people, people living with dementia, adults with a learning disability, autistic adults, people living with mental...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Ajaess · 1b Cockaynes Lane, Colchester, Essex, CO7 8BZ
Home care · Run by Ajaess Ltd
Ajaess supports people in their own homes in Colchester and across this part of Essex. We work with older people, people living with dementia and adults with a physical disability. We have kept our focus fairly narrow on purpose. Doing a...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability
Joff Care Services · 59 Luncies Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1SB
Home care · Run by Joff Care Services Ltd
Joff Care supports older people and younger adults in their own homes in Basildon and across this part of Essex. Nearly everyone who contacts us wants the same thing, which is to carry on living where they are. Our role is to make that...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Radis Community Care (Freeman Court) · Burgess Springs, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QZ
Home care · Run by G P Homecare Limited
Freeman Court in Chelmsford, run by Radis Community Care, provides care and support to people living in their own homes here. We work with older people, people living with dementia, people living with mental ill health, people with visual...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Woodward Healthcare · The Old Courthouse, Grays, Thurrock, RM17 5DD
Home care · Run by Woodward Healthcare Limited
Woodward Healthcare is a home care agency in Grays, supporting people in their own homes across Thurrock. Most of our work is with older adults, a good number living with dementia. We also support younger adults, people managing a mental...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Headway and Norfolk · 8 Epsilon Terrace, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9FJ
Home care · CQC Outstanding · Run by Headway Suffolk and Norfolk LTD
Headway Suffolk and Norfolk supports people in their own homes and communities across Suffolk and Norfolk, working out of Ipswich. Our most recent overall rating from the Care Quality Commission is outstanding. We are glad of it and a...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults

What home care costs

Type of care	What it costs
Hourly care visits, East Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88.	£26.00 to £34.30 an hour
Homecare Association minimum price 2026 to 2027. The Association's estimate of the lowest price that covers the cost of delivering care. It is not a legal minimum.	£34.42 an hour
Live in care, England Middle half of prices from 62 agencies. Median £1,455.	£1,250 to £1,668 a week

Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.

Inspected most recently

Bluebird Care East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 29 September 2026, Outstanding
William Wood House, 29 September 2026, Good
Faiths Care, 29 September 2026, Good

Longest since a report

Mill Lodge, 26 June 2014, Not yet rated
Kingdom Healthcare Services Ltd, 10 February 2017, Good
Diamond Unique Care Limited, 23 June 2017, Good

Frequently asked questions about home care in the East

How many home care agencies are there in the East?

the East has 1,820 CQC registered home care agencies: 61 Outstanding, 861 Good, 145 Requires improvement, 9 Inadequate, 744 not yet rated. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.

How much does home care cost in the East?

Hourly care visits, East: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88. Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price.

Which home care agencies in the East were inspected most recently?

Bluebird Care East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft (29 September 2026), William Wood House (29 September 2026) and Faiths Care (29 September 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.