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Dementia care in the East Suffolk council area

There are 39 dementia care services in the East Suffolk council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 28 carry a published CQC rating, and 27 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 11 are unrated, which usually means they have not been inspected since registering rather than that anything is wrong. Privately arranged care is quoted by the hour, and the Homecare Association puts the minimum a provider must charge in 2026-27 at £34.42, or about £481.88 a week for two half-hour visits a day. The council paid providers £22.47 an hour in 2023-24, the 40th highest of 150 councils in England and 6% above the £21.19 median. That is 39 of the 51 home care services across the East Suffolk local authority. Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it pays towards, so this is the area that matters for funding.

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Caring Forever Limited

Beccles, Suffolk

Requires improvementCQC, Oct 2021

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Rose Care Suffolk Ltd

Felixstowe, Suffolk

OutstandingCQC, Jan 2020one area rated lower

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +3 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Help at Home Care

Beccles, Suffolk

Not yet rated · on the register 3 years

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +3 more
Hourly rate
not published
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not published
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not published
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Swann House

Saxmundham, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Oct 2019

  • Sensory impairments
  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Deben View

Woodbridge, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Nov 2023

  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Holmwood Residential Home

Bungay, Suffolk

OutstandingCQC, May 2019one area rated lower

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +3 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Pitches View

Reydon, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Apr 2022

  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Amari Care Services

Lowestoft, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Feb 2020

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +4 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Levington Court

Lowestoft, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Apr 2019

  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Waveney Home First

Lowestoft, Suffolk

GoodCQC, Feb 2018

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +6 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Dementia care in East Suffolk: questions people ask

How much does dementia care cost in the East Suffolk council area?
Agencies in the East Suffolk council area quote by the hour after an assessment, so there is no single price. The Homecare Association calculates that a provider needs to charge at least £34.42 an hour in 2026-27 to pay careworkers the statutory minimum for all their working time and run a compliant business. Two half-hour visits a day at that rate is roughly £481.88 a week. Suffolk paid £22.47 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
Will the council pay for dementia care in the East Suffolk council area?
Suffolk can arrange and fund care after a needs assessment, which is free and which anyone can request. What you contribute depends on a separate financial assessment. It paid providers an average of £22.47 an hour in 2023-24, the 40th highest of 150 councils in England. The Homecare Association's minimum sustainable price is £34.42 for 2026-27. Those are different years, so treat the pair as context rather than a like-for-like gap. What a council pays shapes which agencies will take council-funded work at all.
Which dementia care services in the East Suffolk council area are rated best?
28 of the 39 services in the East Suffolk council area carry a published CQC rating and 27 of those, 96%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 3 are rated Outstanding, the top grade: Rose Care Suffolk Ltd, Holmwood Residential Home and Seckford AlmsHouses. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
Is the East Suffolk council area well served for dementia care?
39 of the 51 home care services in the East Suffolk council area are registered to support this, 76%, against 74% across England. That is about average. Registration is permission rather than specialisation, so it sets the size of the list rather than its quality.
How do I choose a dementia care agency in the East Suffolk council area?
Start with what the regulator publishes, then ask what it cannot tell you: who would actually visit, whether it is the same carer each time, what happens when that person is ill, and how long a call really lasts. 11 of the 39 services in the East Suffolk council area carry no published verdict at all, so for those the questions are the only evidence you have. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.