Abbots Care Limited (East Dorset branch)
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 8 years
- Sensory impairments
- Dementia
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Elderly care in Wimborne
There are 14 elderly care services in Wimborne registered with the Care Quality Commission. 3 carry a published CQC rating, and 3 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. Adult social care in Wimborne is arranged by Dorset, which paid providers £26.39 an hour in 2023-24, the 9th highest of 150 councils in England and 25% above the £21.19 median. That is 14 of the 14 home care services in Wimborne. 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 Wimborne
None of the 14 services in Wimborne 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.
Dorset paid independent agencies a median of £26.39 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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iDirect - East Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire
Wimborne, Dorset
GoodCQC, Aug 2019
- 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
Duty Care
Wimborne, Dorset
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
Agincare UK Ferndown
Wimborne, Dorset
GoodCQC, Aug 2019
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Services for everyone
- +6 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
BS Care Management Services
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- 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
Yourlife (Wimborne)
Wimborne, Dorset
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
South West Care Group LTD T/A Goodoaks Homecare East Dorset
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 6 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
Newgencaregroup (Dorset)
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +6 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Priority Home Care
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 7 years
- Sensory impairments
- Dementia
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Dorset office
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 7 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
Candlelight Homecare Services Wimborne Area Office
Wimborne, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Not yet rated · on the register 15 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Services for everyone
- +8 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Home Instead East Dorset & Blandford
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 9 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
Fairhope
Wimborne, Dorset
GoodCQC, Mar 2023
- 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
Integrated Case Management Ltd
Wimborne, Dorset
Not yet rated · on the register 5 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Elderly care in Wimborne: questions people ask
- How much does elderly care cost in Wimborne?
- None of the 14 services in Wimborne 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. Dorset paid £26.39 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for elderly care in Wimborne?
- Dorset 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 £26.39 an hour in 2023-24, the 9th 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 Wimborne are rated best?
- 3 of the 14 services in Wimborne carry a published CQC rating and 3 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 Wimborne?
- 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 14 services in Wimborne 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.