How many home care services provide learning disability care?

8,535 services are registered to support learning disabilities, which is 54% of the 15,668 the CQC categorises this way. These categories are an English thing: the Care Inspectorate does not publish them, so Scottish services are absent from this count rather than uninterested. It rules some agencies out, though most that offer it also offer a great deal else.

Does being registered for learning disability care mean a service specialises in it?

No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 85% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 7 registrations in all. Only 161 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.

Are learning disability care services rated well?

5,167 of the 8,535 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 264 rated Outstanding. 546 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.

How do I find learning disability care near me?

Start from your town rather than the national list, because availability is local and an agency registered for this may not have capacity where you live. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.

Learning disability support at home

8,535 home care services across England and Scotland are registered with the Care Quality Commission to support support to live independently. Before you use that as a shortlist, it is worth knowing how much it actually narrows things, because the honest answer is different for every condition.

How much this narrows it

8,535 services register for this, 54% of those the CQC categorises. It rules some agencies out, but most that offer it also offer a great deal else.

161

registered for learning disability care and nothing else, out of 8,535

85%

are also registered for elderly care

specialisms the typical one holds

A service registers for everything it may lawfully provide, not everything it is good at. So treat this list as the agencies allowed to help, then ask each one the questions that actually separate them: how many of their current clients have this, who would be coming, and what happens when that person is off.

Twelve questions to ask an agency →

What the CQC makes of them

5,167 of these 8,535 services carry a published rating, which is 61%. The rest have not been inspected since registering, which is not a mark against them.

264

Outstanding

4,353

Good

546

Requires improvement

Inadequate

England only, and here is why. The Care Inspectorate records every Scottish home care service as supporting “Adults” and nothing more specific, so none of the 2,398 Scottish services can appear on this page. That is a gap in the Scottish record rather than in the services. Browse home care in Scotland →

Learning disability care by area

Other types of care

Learning disability care: questions people ask

How many home care services provide learning disability care?: 8,535 services are registered to support learning disabilities, which is 54% of the 15,668 the CQC categorises this way. These categories are an English thing: the Care Inspectorate does not publish them, so Scottish services are absent from this count rather than uninterested. It rules some agencies out, though most that offer it also offer a great deal else.
Does being registered for learning disability care mean a service specialises in it?: No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 85% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 7 registrations in all. Only 161 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.
Are learning disability care services rated well?: 5,167 of the 8,535 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 264 rated Outstanding. 546 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.
How do I find learning disability care near me?: Start from your town rather than the national list, because availability is local and an agency registered for this may not have capacity where you live. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.