Home care in London
There are 2657 home care services in London registered with the Care Quality Commission. 1157 carry a published CQC rating, and 1032 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 1500 are unrated, which usually means they have not been inspected since registering rather than that anything is wrong. 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. They sit across 33 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Barking and Dagenham169
- Barnet104
- Bexley75
- Brent109
- Bromley93
- Camden48
- City of London16
- Croydon170
- Ealing113
- Enfield129
- Greenwich111
- Hackney44
- Hammersmith and Fulham42
- Haringey71
- Harrow106
- Havering128
- Hillingdon94
- Hounslow78
- Islington53
- Kensington and Chelsea17
- Kingston upon Thames50
- Lambeth61
- Lewisham94
- Merton65
- Newham96
- Redbridge141
- Richmond upon Thames30
- Southwark59
- Sutton62
- Tower Hamlets83
- Waltham Forest59
- Wandsworth44
- Westminster23
Towns in London
- Croydon 111
- Ilford 110
- Barking 99
- Romford 95
- Enfield 80
- Harrow 78
- Dagenham 59
- Bromley 44
- Uxbridge 40
- Hounslow 40
- Wembley 37
- Rainham 35
- Hayes 34
- Sutton 30
- Erith 24
- Orpington 22
- Mitcham 22
- Edgware 21
- Southall 21
- South Croydon 20
- Barnet 19
- Stanmore 19
- Greenford 19
- Hornchurch 17
By type of care in London
- Dementia care (2020)
- Elderly care (2357)
- Physical disability care (2128)
- Learning disability care (1497)
- Mental health care (1648)
- Sensory impairment care (1539)
- Children's care (712)
- Substance misuse support (354)
Home care in London: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in London?
- Agencies in London quote by the hour after an assessment, so there is no single price. 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 London?
- 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 London are rated best?
- 1157 of the 2657 services in London carry a published CQC rating and 1032 of those, 89%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is the same as the 89% across England. 31 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Access All Care And Training Solutions, Ayai Care Head Office and Yarrow Domiciliary Care Agency. 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 London?
- 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. 1500 of the 2657 services in London 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.