Great Bradfords House
Braintree, Essex
GoodCQC, Oct 2018
- Sensory impairments
- Dementia
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Learning disability care in the Braintree council area
There are 25 learning disability care services in the Braintree council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 18 carry a published CQC rating, and 16 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 7 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. Adult social care in the Braintree council area is arranged by Essex, which paid providers £23.57 an hour in 2023-24, the 30th highest of 150 councils in England and 11% above the £21.19 median. That is 25 of the 40 home care services across the Braintree local authority. Your council decides what care you are entitled to and what it pays towards, so this is the area that matters for funding.
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Learning disability care in Braintree: questions people ask
- How much does learning disability care cost in the Braintree council area?
- Agencies in the Braintree council area 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. Essex paid £23.57 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for learning disability care in the Braintree council area?
- Essex 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 £23.57 an hour in 2023-24, the 30th 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 learning disability care services in the Braintree council area are rated best?
- 18 of the 25 services in the Braintree council area carry a published CQC rating and 16 of those, 89%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 2 are rated Outstanding, the top grade: Forest Homecare Limited and Creative Support - Thistley Green. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
- Is the Braintree council area well served for learning disability care?
- 25 of the 40 home care services in the Braintree council area are registered to support this, 63%, against 54% across England. That is better served than most places. Registration is permission rather than specialisation, so it sets the size of the list rather than its quality.
- How do I choose a learning disability care agency in the Braintree 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. 7 of the 25 services in the Braintree 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.