Home care in Manchester

Home care in Manchester: questions people ask

How much does home care cost in Manchester?

None of the 248 services in Manchester 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. Manchester paid £20.00 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.

Will the council pay for home care in Manchester?

Manchester 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 £20.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 42nd lowest 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 Manchester are rated best?

97 of the 248 services in Manchester carry a published CQC rating and 89 of those, 92%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 7 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them The Focus Foundation, Home Instead Salford-Worsley and The Fallowfield Project. 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 Manchester?

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. 151 of the 248 services in Manchester 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 Manchester

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.

• Manchester 132
• Trafford 27
• Salford 26
• Oldham 16
• Bury 16
• Tameside 12
• Rochdale 11
• Wigan 8

Companies running more than one service in Manchester

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.

• Creative Support Limited 7 here of 67
• Premier Care Limited 5 here of 13
• Manchester City Council - Adult Directorate 4 here
• Manchester City Council 3 here of 4
• Yourlife Management Services Limited 2 here of 126
• Voyage 1 Limited 2 here of 44
• Comfort Call Limited 2 here of 24
• Alcedo Orange Limited 2 here of 17
• Turning Point 2 here of 14
• I Care (GB) Limited 2 here of 13
• Meridian Health and Social Care Limited 2 here of 13
• Highland Ornate Limited 2 here of 5
• Age Concern Manchester 2 here
• Salford City Council 2 here
• ICare Solutions Manchester Limited 2 here
• City Care Partnership Limited 2 here

Nearby towns

• Liverpool 166
• Preston 85
• Bolton 73
• Stockport 60
• Oldham 53
• Warrington 52
• Rochdale 46
• Carlisle 44
• Bury 44
• Blackburn 40
• Blackpool 36
• St. Helens 35