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Home care in the West Lindsey council area

There are 16 home care services in the West Lindsey council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 4 carry a published CQC rating, and 4 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 12 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 the West Lindsey council area is arranged by Lincolnshire, which paid providers £22.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 47th highest of 150 councils in England and 4% above the £21.19 median. Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it pays towards, so this is the area that matters for funding.

What home care costs in West Lindsey

None of the 16 services in West Lindsey 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.

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What Lincolnshire pays for home care

£22an hour, 2023-24

The average hourly rate Lincolnshire paid independent agencies for home care it commissioned.

The Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour, which is what an agency needs to charge to pay carers lawfully for travel time as well as time in your home. Those two figures cover different years (2023-24 against 2026-27), so treat the gap as indicative rather than exact. Wages have risen since, so the current gap is more likely wider than narrower.
This is not what you would pay. Councils buy in bulk on long contracts. Arranging care privately costs meaningfully more, and part of what a private client pays makes up the difference on the council’s rate.

NHS England, Adult Social Care Finance Return, 2023-24, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source · Compare every council

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Butterflies Care & Support Ltd

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 14 years

  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health conditions
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
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not published
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Lincs

Market Rasen, Lincolnshire

GoodCQC, May 2019one area rated lower

  • 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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Atern Care

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 1 year

  • 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
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Blue Swan Health Care Limited

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

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
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CRT - Lincolnshire Home Care

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 4 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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Coulson the Bungalow

Market Rasen, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 4 years

  • Sensory impairments
  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Dementia
  • +5 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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MSP Case Management Ltd

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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
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Grosvenor House Care Home

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 15 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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Sagenta Head Office

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 2 years

  • Caring for adults under 65 yrs
  • Caring for adults over 65 yrs
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
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not published
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Haywood Homes

Market Rasen, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 3 years

  • 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
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Trent Nursing

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

GoodCQC, Sept 2022one area rated lower

  • Services for everyone
  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health conditions
  • +1 more
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Sterling Care Services

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Not yet rated · on the register 4 years

  • Dementia
  • Physical disabilities
Hourly rate
not published
Pays carers for travel
not published
Shortest visit
not published
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Councils bordering West Lindsey

These authorities share a town with West Lindsey, so if your search area crosses the boundary they are worth a look. What each pays for care differs.

Home care in West Lindsey: questions people ask

How much does home care cost in the West Lindsey council area?
None of the 16 services in the West Lindsey council area 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. Lincolnshire paid £22.00 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
Will the council pay for home care in the West Lindsey council area?
Lincolnshire 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 £22.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 47th 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 home care services in the West Lindsey council area are rated best?
4 of the 16 services in the West Lindsey council area 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 home care agency in the West Lindsey 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. 12 of the 16 services in the West Lindsey 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.

Towns in West Lindsey

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