Home Care in Brentwood
Brentwood has 30 CQC registered home care agencies. 13 are rated Good, 1 Requires improvement, and 16 have not yet been rated. 7 of the 30 were last inspected more than three years ago.
Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.
Brentwood at a glance
What the local numbers say about home care in Brentwood, to help you judge the options below.
- Hourly care visits, East of England: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies.
- People aged 75 and over: 8,500. Rising to 9,200 by 2035, up 8%
- Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 1,200. Rising to 1,300 by 2035, up 14%
- People aged 85 and over: 2,600. Rising to 3,400 by 2035, up 30%
- Dementia diagnosis rate: 62%. The NHS ambition is 67%. Essex as a whole is 67%.
- Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 0 opened, 0 closed. 30 registered today.
- Choice of agencies: 333 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is under a mile away (0.3 miles).
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Arranging and funding care at home in Brentwood
Home care is usually arranged under time pressure, and the funding question tends to surface only once visits have already started. Raising it first changes what is possible, because the hours a council agrees to fund shape which of the thirty agencies listed here can build a workable rota. Two assessments produce that answer, one concerned with what a person needs and one with what they can be asked to pay.
Requesting a care needs assessment
A care needs assessment is free and open to anyone who appears to need care and support, with no savings test to qualify. Essex County Council is the authority responsible for carrying it out for people living in Brentwood and for deciding which needs are eligible for funded support. The assessor works through washing, dressing, meals, medication, mobility and safety at home, and asks what the person wants their day to look like, then records the eligible needs in writing. Keep that record, because the hours and tasks in a care package come directly from it, and an unpaid carer can request a carer's assessment in their own right.
What home care costs
A financial assessment then considers income, savings and property to establish the person's contribution. Where the council funds a package it pays up to the rate it has set for the assessed level of need, and anyone arranging care privately contracts with the agency directly. Agencies in Brentwood usually charge an hourly rate, commonly higher at evenings, weekends and bank holidays, with short calls sometimes carrying a minimum charge. Ask for the rates in writing, along with whether travel time is charged, what happens when a visit overruns, and how much notice is needed to change or cancel a call.
Choosing a home care agency in Brentwood and what to check
An agency is judged on the people it sends and on whether its rota holds together in a difficult week. That matters especially here, because more than half the agencies listed have registered recently enough that no inspection report exists to consult.
Using the inspection evidence, and what to do without it
Every agency on this page is registered with the Care Quality Commission. Eleven are rated Good, among them ECL Havering, Crystal Social Care, Premald Care, Helping Hands Brentwood, Safehands Live In Care Ltd, Ebony Healthcare Services Limited and Bluebird Care. One, Caremax Homecare Services Limited, is currently rated Requires Improvement. Eighteen have not yet been rated. A rating summarises five separate judgements about safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness and leadership, and where a report exists it is worth reading in full. Where one does not, ask the manager how carers are recruited, what training they complete before their first visit, how they are supervised and spot checked, and what the agency measures to know whether it is doing well.
Questions to ask before you commit
Ask how many different carers would visit across a fortnight and whether you are told in advance who is coming, because continuity is what families end up valuing most. Ask what happens when a carer is off sick and how quickly cover is arranged. Ask how late a call can run before someone telephones you, how medication is recorded, and how a concern is raised and resolved. Ask for references or for permission to speak to an existing client, particularly where there is no inspection report to fall back on.
30 home care in Brentwood
- Sunbear Care · Brentwood, Essex
- You & I Care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Helping Hands · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- ECL Havering · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Onamds Care · Brentwood, Essex
- Vim Care · Brentwood, Essex
- Montbazon Court · Brentwood, Essex
- Right at Home Billericay, & Havering · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- IXCEED HEALTH UK · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Carelink Services · Brentwood, Essex
- Greenfields Care Services · Brentwood, Essex
- Safeside Supported Living Services · Brentwood, Essex
- Caremax Homecare Services · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Requires improvement
- Crystal Social Care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Safehands Live In Care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Amor Social Care · Brentwood, Essex
- Manifolds care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Unique Resourcing · Brentwood, Essex
- De Vere Care Partnership – South West · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Bluebird Care (West) · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Connect Care · Brentwood, Essex
- Cedar Green Healthcare Services · Brentwood, Essex
- Tring Care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Aspire Support · Brentwood, Essex
- 247 Live-in Companions · Brentwood, Essex
- Ebony Healthcare Services · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Well-Led Care · Brentwood, Essex
- Ablecross · Brentwood, Essex
- Premald Care · Brentwood, Essex · CQC Good
- Access for Care · Brentwood, Essex
What home care costs
| Type of care | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Hourly care visits, East of England Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88. Shown for East of England because too few Essex agencies publish a rate. | £26.00 to £34.30 an hour |
| What Essex pays Average hourly rate, October 2026. | £28.04 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 (Essex West), 5 August 2026, Good
- Manifolds care, 9 July 2026, Good
- Tring Care Limited, 9 June 2026, Good
Longest since a report
- Ebony Healthcare Services Limited, 3 November 2017, Good
- Right at Home Billericay, Brentwood & Havering, 11 May 2019, Good
- Safehands Live In Care Ltd, 4 August 2021, Good
Frequently asked questions about home care in Brentwood
How many home care agencies are there in Brentwood?
Brentwood has 30 CQC registered home care agencies: 13 Good, 1 Requires improvement, 16 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 Brentwood?
Hourly care visits, East of England: £26.00 to £34.30 an hour. Middle half of prices from 15 agencies. Median £31.88. Shown for East of England because too few Essex agencies publish a rate. 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 Brentwood were inspected most recently?
Bluebird Care (Essex West) (5 August 2026), Manifolds care (9 July 2026) and Tring Care Limited (9 June 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.
Local care news in Essex
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