Home care in East Midlands
There are 1544 home care services in East Midlands registered with the Care Quality Commission. 671 carry a published CQC rating, and 569 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 873 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. They sit across 35 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Amber Valley20
- Ashfield33
- Bassetlaw33
- Blaby48
- Bolsover14
- Boston11
- Broxtowe21
- Charnwood45
- Chesterfield39
- Derby124
- Derbyshire Dales9
- East Lindsey15
- Erewash22
- Gedling39
- Harborough19
- High Peak19
- Hinckley and Bosworth29
- Leicester194
- Lincoln26
- Mansfield38
- Melton9
- Newark and Sherwood26
- North East Derbyshire15
- North Kesteven26
- North Northamptonshire158
- North West Leicestershire19
- Nottingham155
- Oadby and Wigston17
- Rushcliffe30
- Rutland15
- South Derbyshire19
- South Holland20
- South Kesteven33
- West Lindsey16
- West Northamptonshire180
Towns in East Midlands
- Leicester 277
- Nottingham 274
- Northampton 163
- Derby 139
- Chesterfield 57
- Corby 53
- Lincoln 49
- Kettering 46
- Mansfield 42
- Wellingborough 42
- Loughborough 30
- Newark 26
- Spalding 21
- Hinckley 21
- Worksop 20
- Grantham 17
- Market Harborough 15
- Sutton-in-ashfield 15
- Oakham 14
- Boston 12
- Ilkeston 11
- Swadlincote 11
- Alfreton 10
- Rushden 10
By type of care in East Midlands
- Dementia care (1151)
- Elderly care (1383)
- Physical disability care (1238)
- Learning disability care (856)
- Mental health care (920)
- Sensory impairment care (914)
- Children's care (343)
- Substance misuse support (191)
Home care in East Midlands: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in East Midlands?
- Agencies in East Midlands 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.
- Will the council pay for home care in East Midlands?
- Your council can arrange and fund care after a needs assessment, which is free and which anyone can ask for. What you pay towards it depends on a separate financial assessment of income and capital. Councils in England paid independent providers an average of £25.05 an hour in 2026-27, against a minimum sustainable price of £34.42, which is why council-funded hours and privately bought hours are often priced differently.
- Which home care services in East Midlands are rated best?
- 671 of the 1544 services in East Midlands carry a published CQC rating and 569 of those, 85%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is below the 89% across England. 31 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Shared Lives Service, Spencer Grove Care Home and RoseLea House. 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 home care agency in East Midlands?
- 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. 873 of the 1544 services in East Midlands 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.