SDL Kingston
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
Not yet rated · on the register 2 years
- 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
Elderly care in Chessington
There are 11 elderly care services in Chessington registered with the Care Quality Commission. 4 carry a published CQC rating, and 4 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 7 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 Chessington is arranged by Kingston upon Thames, which paid providers £18.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 8th lowest of 150 councils in England and 15% below the £21.19 median. That is 11 of the 12 home care services in Chessington. Registration sets what a service is allowed to provide. It does not say how well it does it, so read the inspection report and ring two or three before you decide.
What home care costs in Chessington
None of the 11 services in Chessington have published their rates here yet. Ring two or three and ask. Most will quote over the phone.
For comparison, the Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour for 2026-27. That covers careworker pay at the statutory minimum for all working time including travel, mileage, wage-related costs, and the minimum cost of running a compliant care business.
Kingston upon Thames paid independent agencies a median of £18.00 an hour for the home care it commissioned in 2023-24, against the £34.42 the Homecare Association says it costs to deliver in 2026-27. What every council pays →
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Helping Hands Esher
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
Newly registered, not yet rated
- 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
Firs Court
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
GoodCQC, Sept 2022
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Vigilant Health Care Ltd
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
Not yet rated · on the register 2 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
Master One Care
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
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
SereneCare Group
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
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
Visiting Angels North Surrey
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
GoodCQC, Oct 2021
- 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
Surrey
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
GoodCQC, Mar 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
Foxbridge Healthcare Solutions
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
GoodCQC, Oct 2021
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Comfort Care At Home
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
Not yet rated · on the register 8 years
- 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
Excellence Healthcare Services Ltd
Chessington, Kingston upon Thames
Not yet rated · on the register 4 years
- 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
Elderly care in Chessington: questions people ask
- How much does elderly care cost in Chessington?
- None of the 11 services in Chessington publish a price, so you get a figure by ringing them: most quote by the hour after an assessment. 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. Kingston upon Thames paid £18.00 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for elderly care in Chessington?
- Kingston upon Thames 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 £18.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 8th lowest 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 Chessington are rated best?
- 4 of the 11 services in Chessington carry a published CQC rating and 4 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 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.
- How do I choose a elderly care agency in Chessington?
- 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. 7 of the 11 services in Chessington 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.