Home care in Gloucester

Home care in Gloucester: questions people ask

How much does home care cost in Gloucester?

None of the 108 services in Gloucester 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. Gloucestershire paid £26.61 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.

Will the council pay for home care in Gloucester?

Gloucestershire 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 £26.61 an hour in 2023-24, the 6th 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 Gloucester are rated best?

48 of the 108 services in Gloucester carry a published CQC rating and 42 of those, 88%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is below the 89% across England. 5 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Foundation House, Flexicare Stroud Ltd and Flexicare Home Services UK Ltd. 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 Gloucester?

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. 60 of the 108 services in Gloucester 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.

Local authorities covering Gloucester

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.

• Gloucester 91
• Tewkesbury 12
• Stroud 3

Companies running more than one service in Gloucester

Several branches under one owner. Ratings are given per branch, so a group with a good reputation can still have a weak one near you.

• Prosperity Care and Wellbeing Ltd 3 here
• Holmleigh Care Homes Limited 2 here of 4
• Fox Elms Care Limited 2 here
• Profound Housing and Support Ltd 2 here

Nearby towns

• Bristol 206
• Swindon 77
• Bournemouth 68
• Plymouth 62
• Taunton 50
• Poole 44
• Salisbury 40
• Exeter 37
• Cheltenham 34
• Weston Super Mare 30
• Chippenham 30
• Trowbridge 28