How much does learning disability care cost in the North East Lincolnshire council area?

Agencies in the North East Lincolnshire 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. North East Lincolnshire paid £18.32 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.

Will the council pay for learning disability care in the North East Lincolnshire council area?

North East Lincolnshire 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 £18.32 an hour in 2023-24, the 11th lowest 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.

Is the North East Lincolnshire council area well served for learning disability care?

17 of the 28 home care services in the North East Lincolnshire council area are registered to support this, 61%, 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.

Learning disability care in North East Lincolnshire council area

Q: Which learning disability care services in the North East Lincolnshire council area are rated best?

11 of the 17 services in the North East Lincolnshire council area carry a published CQC rating and 11 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 1 is rated Outstanding, the top grade: Reablement at Home. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.

Q: How do I choose a learning disability care agency in the North East Lincolnshire 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. 6 of the 17 services in the North East Lincolnshire 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.

There are 17 learning disability care services in the North East Lincolnshire council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 11 carry a published CQC rating, and 11 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 6 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 £18.32 an hour in 2023-24, the 11th lowest of 150 councils in England and 14% below the £21.19 median. That is 17 of the 28 home care services across the North East Lincolnshire 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.

Treehouse Care Domiciliary Care Services

Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire

GoodCQC, Jan 2020

Learning disabilities

Hourly rate: not published
Pays carers for travel: not published
Shortest visit: not published

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