Torbay Care Ltd
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 2 years
- 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
Elderly care in Torquay
There are 15 elderly care services in Torquay registered with the Care Quality Commission. 6 carry a published CQC rating, and 6 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 9 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 Torquay is arranged by Torbay, which paid providers £24.36 an hour in 2023-24, the 20th highest of 150 councils in England and 15% above the £21.19 median. That is 15 of the 18 home care services in Torquay. 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 Torquay
None of the 15 services in Torquay 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.
Torbay paid independent agencies a median of £24.36 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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Care Plus Devon Ltd
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 6 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
DCI Care Ltd
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 5 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Renai Support Services
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 11 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
Frank Care Devon
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Skyline Healthcare Solutions Ltd
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 2 years
- 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
Quality Care Devon
Torquay, Torbay
GoodCQC, Mar 2019
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Helping Hands Torquay
Torquay, Torbay
GoodCQC, May 2019
- 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
Bluebird Care (Torbay)
Torquay, Torbay
OutstandingCQC, Jan 2019one area rated lower
- 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
Cumberland Complex
Torquay, Torbay
GoodCQC, Jun 2023
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health conditions
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Torquay Branch
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- 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
Georgian House
Torquay, Torbay
Not yet rated · on the register 15 years
- 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
Homecare 2000 Ltd
Torquay, Torbay
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
Summon Bonum Support & Care
Torquay, Torbay
OutstandingCQC, Dec 2018one area rated lower
- 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
Kensa Health Torbay and South Hams
Torquay, Torbay
GoodCQC, Aug 2023
- 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 Torquay: questions people ask
- How much does elderly care cost in Torquay?
- None of the 15 services in Torquay 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. Torbay paid £24.36 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for elderly care in Torquay?
- Torbay 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 £24.36 an hour in 2023-24, the 20th 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 Torquay are rated best?
- 6 of the 15 services in Torquay carry a published CQC rating and 6 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 2 are rated Outstanding, the top grade: Bluebird Care (Torbay) and Summon Bonum Support & Care. 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 Torquay?
- 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. 9 of the 15 services in Torquay 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.