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Elderly care in the Cheshire West and Chester council area

There are 74 elderly care services in the Cheshire West and Chester council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 49 carry a published CQC rating, and 46 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 25 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 £21.85 an hour in 2023-24, the 54th highest of 150 councils in England and 3% above the £21.19 median. That is 74 of the 85 home care services across the Cheshire West and Chester 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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Belgrave Care

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Jun 2019

  • 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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Homecarers Cheshire Mid

Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Dec 2020

  • 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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C4 Care Limited

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Sept 2022

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Learning disabilities
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Bespoke Care Cheshire Ltd

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, May 2021

  • 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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Apollo Care (South Wirral)

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Jul 2018

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Evolving Care Ltd Winsford

Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester

Newly registered, not yet rated

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Helping Hands Northwich

Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 4 years

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • 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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Northwich Network

Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Nov 2018

  • 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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Home Instead Limited

Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester

OutstandingCQC, Apr 2020one area rated lower

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Learning disabilities
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Homecarers Cheshire West

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Nov 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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Ace Care Professionals Ltd

Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Nov 2020

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health conditions
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Helping Hands Ellesmere Port

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 3 years

  • 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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Domiciliary Care Cheshire

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

Requires improvementCQC, Mar 2024

  • 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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Cheshire Support Services

Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 3 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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Purpleline Care Services Ltd

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 2 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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Live Life Well Limited

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Jan 2019

  • 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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Vivid Care Services Cheshire

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 1 year

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • +2 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Solutions in Service Ltd

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Mar 2018

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Mental health conditions
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Pleasant Care (Cheshire) Services

Malpas, Cheshire West and Chester

Not yet rated · on the register 2 years

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • Mental health conditions
  • +4 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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StellarCare NW HQ

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, May 2022

  • 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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Elderly care in Cheshire West and Chester: questions people ask

How much does elderly care cost in the Cheshire West and Chester council area?
Agencies in the Cheshire West and Chester 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. Cheshire West and Chester paid £21.85 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
Will the council pay for elderly care in the Cheshire West and Chester council area?
Cheshire West and Chester 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 £21.85 an hour in 2023-24, the 54th 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 Cheshire West and Chester council area are rated best?
49 of the 74 services in the Cheshire West and Chester council area carry a published CQC rating and 46 of those, 94%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 4 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Radfield Home Care Chester & Ellesmere Port, Home Instead Limited and Home Instead Frodsham, Runcorn, Widnes. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
Is the Cheshire West and Chester council area well served for elderly care?
74 of the 85 home care services in the Cheshire West and Chester council area are registered to support this, 87%, 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 Cheshire West and Chester 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. 25 of the 74 services in the Cheshire West and Chester 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.