How many home care services provide sensory impairment care?

9,277 services are registered to support sensory impairments, which is 59% 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. It rules some agencies out, though most that offer it also offer a great deal else.

Does being registered for sensory impairment care mean a service specialises in it?

No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 97% of these services are also registered for physical disability care, and the typical one holds 7 registrations in all. Exactly one service in the whole group is registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.

Are sensory impairment care services rated well?

4,826 of the 9,277 carry a published CQC rating, and 90% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 271 rated Outstanding. 474 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.

How do I find sensory impairment 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 sensory impairments

9,277 home care services across England and Scotland are registered with the Care Quality Commission to support someone who is blind, deaf, or both. 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

9,277 services register for this, 59% of those the CQC categorises. It rules some agencies out, but most that offer it also offer a great deal else.

registered for sensory impairment care and nothing else, out of 9,277

97%

are also registered for physical disability 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

4,826 of these 9,277 services carry a published rating, which is 52%. The rest have not been inspected since registering, which is not a mark against them.

271

Outstanding

4,076

Good

474

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 →

Sensory impairment care by area

Other types of care

Sensory impairment care: questions people ask

How many home care services provide sensory impairment care?: 9,277 services are registered to support sensory impairments, which is 59% 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. It rules some agencies out, though most that offer it also offer a great deal else.
Does being registered for sensory impairment care mean a service specialises in it?: No. Registration sets what a service is permitted to provide, not what it does most days. 97% of these services are also registered for physical disability care, and the typical one holds 7 registrations in all. Exactly one service in the whole group is registered for this and nothing else. Ask an agency how many of its current clients have needs like yours.
Are sensory impairment care services rated well?: 4,826 of the 9,277 carry a published CQC rating, and 90% of those are Good or Outstanding, including 271 rated Outstanding. 474 require improvement. A rating covers the whole service, not this specialism on its own.
How do I find sensory impairment 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.