Home care in South West England
There are 1443 home care services in South West England registered with the Care Quality Commission. 698 carry a published CQC rating, and 659 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 745 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 27 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Bath and North East Somerset31
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole130
- Bristol, City of102
- Cheltenham28
- Cornwall128
- Cotswold20
- Dorset92
- East Devon33
- Exeter26
- Forest of Dean15
- Gloucester91
- Isles of Scilly2
- Mid Devon12
- North Devon20
- North Somerset45
- Plymouth57
- Somerset129
- South Gloucestershire90
- South Hams20
- Stroud24
- Swindon61
- Teignbridge37
- Tewkesbury21
- Torbay31
- Torridge19
- West Devon13
- Wiltshire157
Towns in South West England
- Bristol 206
- Gloucester 108
- Swindon 77
- Bournemouth 68
- Plymouth 62
- Taunton 50
- Poole 44
- Salisbury 40
- Exeter 37
- Cheltenham 34
- Weston Super Mare 30
- Chippenham 30
- Trowbridge 28
- Dorchester 24
- Truro 23
- Newton Abbot 21
- Yeovil 21
- St. Austell 18
- Bath 18
- Weymouth 18
- Torquay 18
- Bideford 17
- Christchurch 16
- Redruth 15
By type of care in South West England
- Dementia care (1059)
- Elderly care (1284)
- Physical disability care (1140)
- Learning disability care (770)
- Mental health care (768)
- Sensory impairment care (883)
- Children's care (231)
- Substance misuse support (153)
Home care in South West England: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in South West England?
- Agencies in South 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 South 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 South West England are rated best?
- 698 of the 1443 services in South West England carry a published CQC rating and 659 of those, 94%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 54 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Nurse Plus UK - Truro, New Key and Steps Ahead Care & Support 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 South 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. 745 of the 1443 services in South 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.