Home care in West Midlands
There are 1773 home care services in West Midlands registered with the Care Quality Commission. 858 carry a published CQC rating, and 713 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 915 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 30 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Birmingham356
- Bromsgrove20
- Cannock Chase30
- Coventry159
- Dudley71
- East Staffordshire26
- Herefordshire, County of51
- Lichfield17
- Malvern Hills13
- Newcastle-under-Lyme29
- North Warwickshire13
- Nuneaton and Bedworth41
- Redditch14
- Rugby31
- Sandwell101
- Shropshire91
- Solihull64
- South Staffordshire20
- Stafford41
- Staffordshire Moorlands13
- Stoke-on-Trent91
- Stratford-on-Avon30
- Tamworth18
- Telford and Wrekin70
- Walsall91
- Warwick38
- Wolverhampton143
- Worcester34
- Wychavon25
- Wyre Forest19
Towns in West Midlands
- Birmingham 371
- Coventry 169
- Wolverhampton 147
- Stoke-on-Trent 98
- Walsall 73
- Telford 66
- Shrewsbury 45
- Worcester 41
- Solihull 40
- Stafford 40
- Rugby 32
- Hereford 31
- Nuneaton 30
- Cannock 30
- Dudley 27
- Oldbury 27
- Burton-on-Trent 26
- Sutton Coldfield 24
- Tipton 23
- Newcastle 22
- Tamworth 21
- Smethwick 18
- West Bromwich 18
- Bromsgrove 17
By type of care in West Midlands
- Dementia care (1288)
- Elderly care (1601)
- Physical disability care (1424)
- Learning disability care (1011)
- Mental health care (1100)
- Sensory impairment care (1091)
- Children's care (363)
- Substance misuse support (205)
Home care in West Midlands: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in West Midlands?
- Agencies in West Midlands 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 West Midlands?
- 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 West Midlands are rated best?
- 858 of the 1773 services in West Midlands carry a published CQC rating and 713 of those, 83%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is below the 89% across England. 31 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Allcare Shropshire Limited, Independent Support and Getta Life 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 West Midlands?
- 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. 915 of the 1773 services in West Midlands 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.