Home care in Purley

Home care in Purley: questions people ask

How much does home care cost in Purley?

None of the 4 services in Purley 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. Croydon paid £19.20 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.

Will the council pay for home care in Purley?

Croydon 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 £19.20 an hour in 2023-24, the 24th 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 Purley are rated best?

2 of the 4 services in Purley carry a published CQC rating and 2 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 Purley?

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. 2 of the 4 services in Purley 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 Purley

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.

• Croydon 3
• Sutton 1

Nearby towns

• Croydon 111
• Ilford 110
• Barking 99
• Romford 95
• Enfield 80
• Harrow 78
• Dagenham 59
• Bromley 44
• Uxbridge 40
• Hounslow 40
• Wembley 37
• Rainham 35