Home care in North East England
There are 482 home care services in North East England registered with the Care Quality Commission. 292 carry a published CQC rating, and 287 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 190 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 12 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- County Durham73
- Darlington23
- Gateshead50
- Hartlepool12
- Middlesbrough28
- Newcastle upon Tyne54
- North Tyneside48
- Northumberland55
- Redcar and Cleveland22
- South Tyneside20
- Stockton-on-Tees44
- Sunderland50
Towns in North East England
- Newcastle upon Tyne 83
- Middlesbrough 47
- Sunderland 42
- Stockton-on-Tees 41
- Gateshead 41
- Darlington 23
- Durham 22
- North Shields 13
- Hartlepool 12
- Wallsend 10
- Cramlington 9
- South Shields 8
- Consett 8
- Chester Le Street 8
- Ashington 8
- Hexham 7
- Bishop Auckland 7
- Peterlee 6
- Newton Aycliffe 6
- Morpeth 6
- Blyth 5
- Jarrow 5
- Boldon Colliery 5
- Whitley Bay 5
By type of care in North East England
- Dementia care (320)
- Elderly care (404)
- Physical disability care (360)
- Learning disability care (300)
- Mental health care (313)
- Sensory impairment care (298)
- Children's care (133)
- Substance misuse support (63)
Home care in North East England: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in North East England?
- Agencies in North East England 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 North East England?
- 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 North East England are rated best?
- 292 of the 482 services in North East England carry a published CQC rating and 287 of those, 98%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 28 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them St Anthony of Padua Care Services, St Cuthberts Care Supported Living and Crescent Homecare Limited. 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 North East England?
- 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. 190 of the 482 services in North East England 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.