Reliacare
Dalton-in-furness, Westmorland and Furness
GoodCQC, Jun 2023
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Mental health conditions
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Home care in Dalton-in-furness
There is 1 home care service in Dalton-in-furness registered with the Care Quality Commission. 1 carry a published CQC rating, and 1 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. 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 Dalton-in-furness is arranged by Westmorland and Furness.
What home care costs in Dalton-in-furness
None of the 1 services in Dalton-in-furness 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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Home care in Dalton-in-furness: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in Dalton-in-furness?
- None of the 1 services in Dalton-in-furness 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.
- Will the council pay for home care in Dalton-in-furness?
- 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 Dalton-in-furness are rated best?
- 1 of the 1 services in Dalton-in-furness carry a published CQC rating and 1 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 Dalton-in-furness?
- 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. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.
Local authority for Dalton-in-furness
Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it will pay for, so it is worth knowing which one you fall under.