How much does mental health care cost in the Cheshire West and Chester council area?

Agencies in the Cheshire West and Chester 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. Cheshire West and Chester paid £21.85 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.

Will the council pay for mental health care in the Cheshire West and Chester council area?

Cheshire West and Chester 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 £21.85 an hour in 2023-24, the 54th 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.

Is the Cheshire West and Chester council area well served for mental health care?

44 of the 85 home care services in the Cheshire West and Chester council area are registered to support this, 52%, against 59% across England. That is less well served than most places, so widening your search may help. Registration is permission rather than specialisation, so it sets the size of the list rather than its quality.

Mental health care in the Cheshire West and Chester council area

There are 44 mental health care services in the Cheshire West and Chester council area registered with the Care Quality Commission. 25 carry a published CQC rating, and 22 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. The other 19 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 £21.85 an hour in 2023-24, the 54th highest of 150 councils in England and 3% above the £21.19 median. That is 44 of the 85 home care services across the Cheshire West and Chester 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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Homecarers Cheshire West

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

GoodCQC, Nov 2022

Sensory impairments
Caring for adults under 65 yrs
Dementia
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Pays carers for travel: not published
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