Home Instead
Tavistock, Devon
OutstandingCQC, Feb 2020one area rated lower
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Home care in the West Devon council area
There are 13 home care services in the West Devon council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 5 carry a published CQC rating, and 5 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 8 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. The council paid providers £26.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 11th highest of 150 councils in England and 23% above the £21.19 median. Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it pays towards, so this is the area that matters for funding.
What home care costs in West Devon
None of the 13 services in West Devon have published their rates here yet. Ring two or three and ask. Most will quote over the phone.
For comparison, the Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour for 2026-27. That covers careworker pay at the statutory minimum for all working time including travel, mileage, wage-related costs, and the minimum cost of running a compliant care business.
What Devon pays for home care
£26an hour, 2023-24
The average hourly rate Devon paid independent agencies for home care it commissioned.
The Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour, which is what an agency needs to charge to pay carers lawfully for travel time as well as time in your home. Those two figures cover different years (2023-24 against 2026-27), so treat the gap as indicative rather than exact. Wages have risen since, so the current gap is more likely wider than narrower.
This is not what you would pay. Councils buy in bulk on long contracts. Arranging care privately costs meaningfully more, and part of what a private client pays makes up the difference on the council’s rate.
NHS England, Adult Social Care Finance Return, 2023-24, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source · Compare every council
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Dementia care (12)Elderly care (13)Physical disability care (12)Learning disability care (5)Mental health care (7)Sensory impairment care (9)
Isobelles Care Ltd - Chagford
Newton Abbot, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
My Way Support CIC
Okehampton, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 5 years
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Moorcare Devon Limited
Yelverton, Devon
GoodCQC, May 2023
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Mental health conditions
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
New Key West Devon
Okehampton, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Complete Care (S.W) Ltd
Tavistock, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Altair Healthcare Limited
Okehampton, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +7 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
West Devon & District Care & Support Limited
Tavistock, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 15 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Tavy Care Services
Tavistock, Devon
GoodCQC, Nov 2018
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
West View
Yelverton, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 15 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Kensey Care Services
Tavistock, Devon
GoodCQC, May 2021
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Springfields Community Care Limited
Okehampton, Devon
GoodCQC, Jun 2023
- Sensory impairments
- Dementia
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Sante Care at Home Ltd
Tavistock, Devon
Not yet rated · on the register 4 years
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Caring for adults over 65 yrs
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Councils bordering West Devon
These authorities share a town with West Devon, so if your search area crosses the boundary they are worth a look. What each pays for care differs.
Home care in West Devon: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in the West Devon council area?
- None of the 13 services in the West Devon council area 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. Devon paid £26.00 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for home care in the West Devon council area?
- Devon 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 £26.00 an hour in 2023-24, the 11th highest 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 the West Devon council area are rated best?
- 5 of the 13 services in the West Devon council area carry a published CQC rating and 5 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 1 is rated Outstanding, the top grade: Home Instead. 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 the West Devon council area?
- 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. 8 of the 13 services in the West Devon council area 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.
Towns in West Devon
Most people search by town rather than by council area.