How many home care services provide physical disability care?

12,541 services are registered to support physical disabilities, which is 80% 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. On its own that narrows almost nothing, so treat it as a starting list rather than a shortlist.

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

No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 94% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Only 5 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.

Are physical disability care services rated well?

5,981 of the 12,541 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 308 rated Outstanding. 636 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.

How do I find physical 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.

Home care for physical disabilities

12,541 home care services across England and Scotland are registered with the Care Quality Commission to support help with moving, washing and getting about. 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

Nearly every home care agency registers for this: 12,541 of the 15,668 services the CQC categorises, which is 80%. On its own it narrows almost nothing.

registered for physical disability care and nothing else, out of 12,541

94%

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

5,981 of these 12,541 services carry a published rating, which is 48%. The rest have not been inspected since registering, which is not a mark against them.

308

Outstanding

5,029

Good

636

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 →

Physical disability care by area

Other types of care

Physical disability care: questions people ask

How many home care services provide physical disability care?: 12,541 services are registered to support physical disabilities, which is 80% 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. On its own that narrows almost nothing, so treat it as a starting list rather than a shortlist.
Does being registered for physical disability care mean a service specialises in it?: No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 94% of these services are also registered for elderly care, and the typical one holds 6 registrations in all. Only 5 are registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.
Are physical disability care services rated well?: 5,981 of the 12,541 carry a published CQC rating, and 89% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 308 rated Outstanding. 636 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.
How do I find physical 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.