Home care in North West England
There are 1758 home care services in North West England registered with the Care Quality Commission. 918 carry a published CQC rating, and 848 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 840 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 35 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Blackburn with Darwen40
- Blackpool29
- Bolton73
- Burnley34
- Bury59
- Cheshire East100
- Cheshire West and Chester85
- Chorley24
- Cumberland69
- Fylde24
- Halton16
- Hyndburn14
- Knowsley28
- Lancaster37
- Liverpool125
- Manchester135
- Oldham69
- Pendle32
- Preston64
- Ribble Valley6
- Rochdale63
- Rossendale15
- Salford60
- Sefton54
- South Ribble22
- St. Helens43
- Stockport73
- Tameside39
- Trafford66
- Warrington52
- West Lancashire13
- Westmorland and Furness54
- Wigan53
- Wirral54
- Wyre21
Towns in North West England
- Manchester 248
- 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
- Burnley 33
- Wigan 33
- Salford 30
- Chester 27
- Altrincham 26
- Wirral 25
- Nelson 25
- Southport 24
- Ellesmere Port 23
- Chorley 23
- Macclesfield 23
By type of care in North West England
- Dementia care (1285)
- Elderly care (1567)
- Physical disability care (1410)
- Learning disability care (948)
- Mental health care (1057)
- Sensory impairment care (1043)
- Children's care (330)
- Substance misuse support (246)
Home care in North West England: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in North West England?
- Agencies in North West 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 West 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 West England are rated best?
- 918 of the 1758 services in North West England carry a published CQC rating and 848 of those, 92%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 50 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Castle Supported Living Limited, Radfield Home Care Chester & Ellesmere Port and Options for Supported Living. 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 West 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. 840 of the 1758 services in North West 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.