Aregoncare Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
Requires improvementCQC, Jun 2023
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mental health care in Tipton
There are 15 mental health care services in Tipton registered with the Care Quality Commission. 8 carry a published CQC rating, and 6 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 Tipton is arranged by Sandwell, which paid providers £18.40 an hour in 2023-24, the 13th lowest of 150 councils in England and 13% below the £21.19 median. That is 15 of the 23 home care services in Tipton. Registration sets what a service is allowed to provide. It does not say how well it does it, so read the inspection report and ring two or three before you decide.
What home care costs in Tipton
None of the 15 services in Tipton have published their rates here yet. Ring two or three and ask. Most will quote over the phone.
For comparison, the Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price at £34.42 an hour for 2026-27. That covers careworker pay at the statutory minimum for all working time including travel, mileage, wage-related costs, and the minimum cost of running a compliant care business.
Sandwell paid independent agencies a median of £18.40 an hour for the home care it commissioned in 2023-24, against the £34.42 the Homecare Association says it costs to deliver in 2026-27. What every council pays →
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Diverse Care Services Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
Newly registered, not yet rated
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Tipton Home Care Limited
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 7 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Konastone Healthcare Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
GoodCQC, Mar 2019
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Future Home Care Ltd Birmingham
Tipton, Sandwell
GoodCQC, Apr 2020
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health conditions
- +1 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Daffodil House
Tipton, Sandwell
GoodCQC, May 2022
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Caring with Dignity Limited
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 3 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Kelly Healthcare Services Limited
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 4 years
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Progressive Support Services Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 5 years
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Sage Care (West Midlands)
Tipton, Sandwell
Requires improvementCQC, Apr 2020
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Premiere Advantage Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 4 years
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Head Office, Capital Recruitment Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
Not yet rated · on the register 1 year
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- Mental health conditions
- +2 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
SLC Paragon (Midlands)
Tipton, Sandwell
GoodCQC, May 2020
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Learning disabilities
- +3 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
FACT Healthcare Ltd
Tipton, Sandwell
GoodCQC, Jun 2017one area rated lower
- Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- +5 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Home Instead Dudley & Sandwell South
Tipton, Sandwell
OutstandingCQC, Nov 2019one area rated lower
- Sensory impairments
- Caring for adults under 65 yrs
- Dementia
- +4 more
- Hourly rate
- not published
- Pays carers for travel
- not published
- Shortest visit
- not published
Mental health care in Tipton: questions people ask
- How much does mental health care cost in Tipton?
- None of the 15 services in Tipton publish a price, so you get a figure by ringing them: most quote by the hour after an assessment. 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. Sandwell paid £18.40 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for mental health care in Tipton?
- Sandwell 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 £18.40 an hour in 2023-24, the 13th 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.
- Which mental health care services in Tipton are rated best?
- 8 of the 15 services in Tipton carry a published CQC rating and 6 of those, 75%, are rated Good or Outstanding. 1 is rated Outstanding, the top grade: Home Instead Dudley & Sandwell South. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
- Is Tipton well served for mental health care?
- 15 of the 23 home care services in Tipton are registered to support this, 65%, against 59% 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 mental health care agency in Tipton?
- 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 15 services in Tipton 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.