Home care agency · Buckfastleigh
The Rock Care Home
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of The Rock Care Home- Address
- 1 Station Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BU
- Run by
- The Rock Care Home Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Residential care home, Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- April 2021 (5 years)
- Registered manager
- Daniel James Wilson
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2020 (6 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 12956681)
- Last CQC check
- 17 Jun 2022
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Regulated activities on its registration: Personal care · Accommodation for persons who require nursing or personal care
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Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-10065650875
About this agency
The Rock Care Home in Buckfastleigh is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency, run by The Rock Care Home Ltd. The service is registered to support older people and lists dementia, physical disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (June 2022). It is one of 24 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Totnes; 17 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from The Rock Care Home at £30–£37 an hour (visiting care, weekdays), based on published prices in the region. As an example, an hour each morning and a 30-minute evening call comes to about £350 a week.
Live-in arrangements here usually cost £1,450–£1,770 weekly.
Devon Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
From the latest CQC inspection
- People were protected from the risk of abuse and avoidable harm as staff were aware of their safeguarding responsibilities and knew how to report any concerns.
- There were sufficient numbers of staff available to meet people's needs.
- Staff had the skills, knowledge and experience to care for and support the people living at the service.
- Staff were recruited safely and received an induction and training to ensure they could meet people's health and care requirements.
Inspected 23 May 2022; report published 17 June 2022. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
How it fits locally
There are 2 other agencies within 3 miles, 1 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is DC Homecare, under 0.5 miles away.
4 of the 7 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Ashburton & Buckfastleigh ward, classed by ONS as larger rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Devon ICB.
Who runs it
The Rock Care Home is run by The Rock Care Home Ltd (company 12956681), incorporated in 2020.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is nursing care.
The Rock Care Home Ltd runs 2 CQC-registered services; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 86% for the same mix of services across England.
All 2 are in Devon, so it is a local operator rather than a national chain.
Past CQC ratings
- Oct 2016
- May 2019
- Jun 2022
- Today Rating 4 years old
Published CQC ratings in date order. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 17 June 2022
Where it is
- Ward
- Ashburton & Buckfastleigh
- Council
- Devon County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Central Devon
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Larger rural; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% most deprived areas in England
See the wider area · Directions · OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Needs it is registered to meet
As listed with the regulator.
History with CQC
The Rock Care Home has been registered with CQC since April 2021, about 5 years.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2016–2022), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
4 years have passed since the last overall rating. Services judged lower-risk wait longer for a visit, but teams change, so check what is different today.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
The Rock Care Home has an even profile: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are each rated Good.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 92 of the 118 other agencies in Devon that CQC has rated.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe106 of 119 in Devon
- Effective107 of 119 in Devon
- Caring94 of 119 in Devon
- Responsive105 of 119 in Devon
- Well-led93 of 119 in Devon
CQC key question ratings, published 17 June 2022. Under each rating: how many agencies in Devon share it.
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Where The Rock Care Home stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Devon, 92% of the 119 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 14 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (June 2022) is more recent than 55% of agency ratings in Devon.
- Registered with CQC in 2021: it has been registered longer than 36% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Devon lists 5.
Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Devon, CQC data for Oct 2026.
Nearby options
Guides for families
Totnes: home care agencies inspected recently
- VanBeekDodge Complex CareApr 2026 · under 0.5 miles
- CAP Caring HQApr 2025 · 3.3 miles
Questions about The Rock Care Home
- Who runs The Rock Care Home?
- On CQC's register the provider is The Rock Care Home Ltd.
- What kind of care can The Rock Care Home offer?
- Its CQC registration covers residential homes, homecare agencies. Ask The Rock Care Home how it would adapt if needs increase.
- Is The Rock Care Home rated well for safety?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- How much does care from The Rock Care Home cost?
- The Rock Care Home has not published its fees with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
- Is The Rock Care Home regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a home care agency under location ID 1-10065650875 and was rated Good overall in June 2022.
- Where is The Rock Care Home based?
- The agency works from 1 Station Road, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0BU; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- How recent is The Rock Care Home's CQC rating?
- The rating now shown was published on 17 June 2022, 4 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Is The Rock Care Home registered for dementia care?
- Yes, it is registered for dementia. Worth asking: how many staff are trained, and how routines are kept consistent.
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Information: Care Quality Commission, Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0). Sections in the provider's own words are theirs; we compiled everything else from public data. The Care Panel is independent and not a care provider.