Which providers in Woking offer home care?

Fifty seven home care agencies registered with the Care Quality Commission are listed for Woking on this page. They include Alina Homecare Chobham and Woking, Sylvian Care Woking, Walfinch Guildford and Woking and Caremark Guildford and Woking, among others. Each has its own profile giving registration details and any published inspection outcome. Opening a profile is the quickest way to check what an agency is registered to provide.

What should we ask a home care agency in Woking before choosing?

Ask how carers are recruited and trained, and whether a small consistent team would attend rather than a changing rota of faces. Ask how the care plan is written, how often it is reviewed and how you would hear about anything that changed. Ask what happens when a carer is delayed, how the office is contacted out of hours and what the complaints process involves. Requesting a sample care plan and the name of the registered manager is entirely reasonable and tells you a good deal.

What is the difference between a care home and a nursing home?

A care home provides accommodation alongside help with the everyday business of living, such as washing, dressing, meals and medication support. A nursing home offers the same and additionally has registered nurses on duty at all hours, so it can meet needs that require clinical care. Home care is different from both, since the carer travels to the person rather than the person moving into a building. Many families start with home care and look at residential options only when visits can no longer cover the need safely.

Can Surrey County Council fund home care in Woking?

It can, where the care needs assessment identifies eligible needs and a financial assessment shows the person cannot meet the full cost themselves. The financial assessment considers income and savings, and the value of the property someone lives in is not counted for care delivered at home. Those who qualify may receive a direct payment to arrange their own support or a package commissioned on their behalf. People assessed as able to pay in full arrange care privately but keep the right to an assessment and to advice.

How do we arrange a care needs assessment in Woking?

Contact the adult social care team at Surrey County Council and request a care needs assessment. It is free and available to anyone who appears to need care and support, whatever their income or savings, and it can be requested by the person or by a relative acting for them. The assessment looks at what someone manages alone, where they struggle and what help would make a difference. A family member giving regular support can also ask for a separate carer's assessment.

How far in advance should we start looking?

Start as soon as the need looks likely rather than waiting for a crisis, because the assessment and the setting up of a rota each take time. Agencies covering Woking may not have capacity in the precise slots you want, and breakfast and bedtime calls are the hardest to secure. Where care follows a hospital discharge the timescale is far shorter and the discharge team will usually arrange something interim. It is worth reviewing that arrangement properly once the immediate pressure has passed.

Home Care in Woking

Woking has 58 CQC registered home care agencies. 29 are rated Good, 4 Outstanding, 4 Requires improvement, and 21 have not yet been rated. 31 of the 58 were last inspected more than three years ago.

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

Woking at a glance

What the local numbers say about home care in Woking, to help you judge the options below.

Hourly care visits, South East: £28.00 to £36.96 an hour. Middle half of prices from 24 agencies.
People aged 75 and over: 17,700. Rising to 20,800 by 2035, up 18%
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 2,300. Rising to 3,000 by 2035, up 28%
People aged 85 and over: 5,100. Rising to 7,700 by 2035, up 51%
Dementia diagnosis rate: 64%. The NHS ambition is 67%.
Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 0 opened, 4 closed. 47 registered today.
Choice of agencies: 207 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is under a mile away (0.6 miles).

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

What Home Care in Woking Involves and What to Look For

Care at home is built out of visits, and the shape of those visits determines whether it works. A single morning call to help someone get up and dressed is a modest arrangement. Four calls a day, or two carers at a time for safe moving and handling, is a substantial one, and the agencies that do the first well are not always equipped for the second.

Capacity Is the First Question

Ask plainly whether the agency can staff the slots you actually need, particularly early mornings, evenings and weekends, which are the hardest to cover across all fifty seven providers listed here. Ask how many different carers would attend over a fortnight, because continuity matters enormously to someone who is anxious or living with memory problems. Ask who covers sickness and leave, how you are told when a visit will run late, and how the office is reached outside working hours.

Reading the Inspection Record

Every agency listed is registered with the Care Quality Commission. Four have been rated Outstanding and twenty eight are rated Good, four carry a Requires Improvement rating and twenty one have not yet been rated. An unrated agency is simply one that has not been inspected yet, often because it is newly registered, so it should not be dismissed. Where no rating exists, ask more searching questions and request to speak with an existing client or their family. Where a rating does exist, read the report itself rather than the single word, paying attention to the sections on safety and leadership.

Getting an Assessment and Sorting Out Funding in Woking

A care needs assessment is the formal route in, and it is free to anyone who appears to need support regardless of income or savings. Surrey County Council carries out that assessment and arranges funded support where the eligibility criteria are met. The written outcome is worth having even if you expect to pay privately, because it sets out the hours and the type of help required and turns a vague enquiry into a precise brief for any agency.

How Funding Is Decided

Where eligible needs are found, a financial assessment follows and looks at income and savings. The value of the home someone lives in is disregarded when care is delivered there, an important difference from residential care. Those who qualify may be offered a direct payment, letting them choose and employ an agency themselves, or a package arranged on their behalf. Anyone assessed as able to meet the full cost retains the right to the assessment and to advice on arranging support.

What It Is Likely to Cost

Visiting care is priced by the hour or by the call, and shorter visits generally carry a higher effective rate. Ask what the quoted rate includes, whether travel or mileage is charged on top, and how evenings, weekends and bank holidays are priced. Establish the minimum visit length, the notice needed to cancel a call and how often rates are reviewed. Where two carers are required for safe handling the cost doubles, so it is better to know that at the outset.

58 home care in Woking (showing 1–50)

Better Life Production Company · Wokingham, Wokingham
Ethan Care · Woking, Surrey
Support Horizons · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Kind Hearts Care Company · Woking, Surrey · CQC Requires improvement
Bracknell · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Four Plus Solutions · Woking, Surrey
Sylvian Care Reading · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
A-List Care Elite · Wokingham, Wokingham
121 Health&Care · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Ravens Support Services · Wokingham, Wokingham
Sorelle Support · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
My Voyage Care Solutions · Woking, Surrey
Reincy Medicare · Wokingham, Wokingham
AM Homecare Services · Wokingham, Wokingham
Allbest Solutions · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Grace at Home · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Quality Care 4 You · Woking, Surrey
Kare Support Services · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Requires improvement
Companion Care Solutions · Wokingham, Wokingham
GoodOaks Homecare - Reading & West Berkshire · Wokingham, Wokingham
Libertatem Healthcare Group · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Outstanding
Sylvian Care · Woking, Surrey
Kay Healthcare · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Sana Care Services · Woking, Surrey
Agincare Live-in Care (South East) · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Astor Care and Nursing Agency · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Rainbow Social Care · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Gabriel's Angels · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Spectrum Group Services · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Purple Solace Care · Woking, Surrey
District Home Care · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Helping Hands · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Alina Homecare Chobham · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Home Instead Senior Care · Woking, Surrey · CQC Outstanding
Flexible Care Solutions, Indigo House · Wokingham, Wokingham
Rebound Care and Support · Wokingham, Wokingham
Link Support · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Outstanding
Pure Moments · Woking, Surrey
Aim24 Care · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Requires improvement
Priority Services4u · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Home Counties Carers · Woking, Surrey · CQC Outstanding
Goldtech Care Services · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Seniors Helping Seniors (Mid and West Kent) · Woking, Surrey
Woodleigh Healthcare (Branch) · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
The Homecare People · Wokingham, Wokingham · CQC Good
Walfinch Guildford · Woking, Surrey
West 2 Reablement · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Skies Home Care · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good
Leo Healthcare Group · Wokingham, Wokingham
SCC Prison Social Care Team · Woking, Surrey · CQC Good

What home care costs

Type of care	What it costs
Hourly care visits, South East Middle half of prices from 24 agencies. Median £32.92. Shown for South East because too few Wokingham agencies publish a rate.	£28.00 to £36.96 an hour
What Wokingham pays Average hourly rate, October 2026.	£23.63 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

Alina Homecare Chobham & Woking, 21 September 2026, Good
District Home Care Ltd, 24 July 2026, Good
SCC Prison Social Care Team, 19 June 2026, Good

Longest since a report

Home Instead Senior Care, 7 December 2017, Outstanding
Support Horizons, 17 February 2018, Good
Sorelle Support, 4 April 2018, Good

Frequently asked questions about home care in Woking

How many home care agencies are there in Woking?

Woking has 58 CQC registered home care agencies: 4 Outstanding, 29 Good, 4 Requires improvement, 21 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 Woking?

Hourly care visits, South East: £28.00 to £36.96 an hour. Middle half of prices from 24 agencies. Median £32.92. Shown for South East because too few Wokingham 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 Woking were inspected most recently?

Alina Homecare Chobham & Woking (21 September 2026), District Home Care Ltd (24 July 2026) and SCC Prison Social Care Team (19 June 2026) have the most recent CQC reports.

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