Frogmore Road
Houghton Regis, Central Bedfordshire
GoodCQC, Jun 2019
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Home care in Houghton Regis
There is 1 home care service in Houghton Regis 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 Houghton Regis is arranged by Central Bedfordshire, which paid providers £25.12 an hour in 2023-24, the 15th highest of 150 councils in England and 19% above the £21.19 median.
What home care costs in Houghton Regis
None of the 1 services in Houghton Regis 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.
What Central Bedfordshire pays for home care
£25.12an hour, 2023-24
The average hourly rate Central Bedfordshire 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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Home care in Houghton Regis: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in Houghton Regis?
- None of the 1 services in Houghton Regis 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. Central Bedfordshire paid £25.12 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for home care in Houghton Regis?
- Central Bedfordshire 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 £25.12 an hour in 2023-24, the 15th 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 Houghton Regis are rated best?
- 1 of the 1 services in Houghton Regis 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 Houghton Regis?
- 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 Houghton Regis
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.