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Elderly care in the Charnwood council area

There are 41 elderly care services in the Charnwood council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 20 carry a published CQC rating, and 18 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 21 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. Adult social care in the Charnwood council area is arranged by Leicestershire, which paid providers £22.50 an hour in 2023-24, the 39th highest of 150 councils in England and 6% above the £21.19 median. That is 41 of the 45 home care services across the Charnwood 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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U&I

Leicester, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 2 years

  • Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • +4 more
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not published
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not published
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Safi Homecare

Leicester, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 3 years

  • Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • +4 more
Hourly rate
not published
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not published
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not published
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Highbury Residential Home

Loughborough, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 10 years

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Learning disabilities
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
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not published
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not published
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Loughborough

Loughborough, Leicestershire

GoodCQC, Dec 2021

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Learning disabilities
  • +3 more
Hourly rate
not published
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not published
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not published
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Pathways of Hope Midlands

Loughborough, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 3 years

  • Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • +4 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Accredo Support & Development

Leicester, Leicestershire

Newly registered, not yet rated

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Learning disabilities
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Rutland House

Loughborough, Leicestershire

GoodCQC, Sept 2019one area rated lower

  • Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • +4 more
Hourly rate
not published
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not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Helping Hands Leicester

Leicester, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 9 years

  • 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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DHC - Connaught House

Loughborough, Leicestershire

Requires improvementCQC, Aug 2022

  • 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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Santo Healthcare Ltd

Leicester, Leicestershire

Not yet rated · on the register 4 years

  • Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Elderly care in Charnwood: questions people ask

How much does elderly care cost in the Charnwood council area?
Agencies in the Charnwood 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. Leicestershire paid £22.50 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
Will the council pay for elderly care in the Charnwood council area?
Leicestershire 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 £22.50 an hour in 2023-24, the 39th 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 elderly care services in the Charnwood council area are rated best?
20 of the 41 services in the Charnwood council area carry a published CQC rating and 18 of those, 90%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. None is rated Outstanding. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
Is the Charnwood council area well served for elderly care?
41 of the 45 home care services in the Charnwood council area are registered to support this, 91%, against 89% 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 elderly care agency in the Charnwood 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. 21 of the 41 services in the Charnwood 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.