Home care in Yorkshire and the Humber
There are 1325 home care services in Yorkshire and the Humber registered with the Care Quality Commission. 639 carry a published CQC rating, and 575 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 686 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 15 local authorities, so pick the area that covers you.
Local authorities
- Barnsley58
- Bradford117
- Calderdale52
- Doncaster78
- East Riding of Yorkshire64
- Kingston upon Hull, City of59
- Kirklees87
- Leeds243
- North East Lincolnshire28
- North Lincolnshire20
- North Yorkshire169
- Rotherham60
- Sheffield148
- Wakefield86
- York46
Towns in Yorkshire and the Humber
- Leeds 230
- Sheffield 157
- Doncaster 79
- Bradford 75
- Hull 73
- York 59
- Huddersfield 58
- Barnsley 57
- Rotherham 56
- Wakefield 50
- Halifax 39
- Harrogate 38
- Scarborough 28
- Grimsby 27
- Pontefract 19
- Beverley 16
- Scunthorpe 14
- Batley 14
- Keighley 12
- Northallerton 12
- Selby 12
- Shipley 11
- Pudsey 11
- Ilkley 10
By type of care in Yorkshire and the Humber
- Dementia care (1009)
- Elderly care (1201)
- Physical disability care (1060)
- Learning disability care (753)
- Mental health care (810)
- Sensory impairment care (816)
- Children's care (247)
- Substance misuse support (180)
Home care in Yorkshire and the Humber: questions people ask
- How much does home care cost in Yorkshire and the Humber?
- Agencies in Yorkshire and the Humber 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 Yorkshire and the Humber?
- 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 Yorkshire and the Humber are rated best?
- 639 of the 1325 services in Yorkshire and the Humber carry a published CQC rating and 575 of those, 90%, are rated Good or Outstanding. That is above the 89% across England. 26 are rated Outstanding, the top grade, among them Newsome Road - St Paul's House, Radfield Home Care York & Rural and Community Support Service. 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 Yorkshire and the Humber?
- 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. 686 of the 1325 services in Yorkshire and the Humber 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.