Home care agency · Wareham
Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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- 20 South Street, Wareham, BH20 4LT
- Run by
- Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited (12 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- March 2023 (3 years)
- Registered manager
- Zoe Allison Brown
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2002 (24 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 04395039)
- Last CQC check
- 18 Nov 2024
- 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
CQC regulated activities: Personal care
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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-15118903732
The service in brief
Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham in Wareham is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency, run by Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (November 2024), with Caring rated Outstanding. It is one of 82 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Upton; 65 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
What the ratings tell you
Looking at the five areas: Caring is rated Outstanding; 4 other areas are Good.
Across Dorset, 8 of 67 rated agencies are Outstanding for Caring (12%).
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 90% and its lowest is Safe at 75%, averaging 79% overall.
Outstanding ratings for a single area are uncommon; the Caring section of the report gives examples of what inspectors saw.
What CQC's inspectors reported
- This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating.
- Where they do, we consider any wider social care provided.
- The provider and registered manager were exceptional at ensuring reasonable adjustments were made to enable staff to do their jobs well.
- People said, “Staff are excellent, especially kind and caring.
Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
CQC's scores in detail
Behind each rating sit scores of 1 to 4 for individual quality statements, which CQC turns into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham scores 79%.
Safe 75%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation3 · Good
Effective 75%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment3 · Good
- How staff, teams and services work together3 · Good
- Supporting people to live healthier lives3 · Good
- Monitoring and improving outcomes3 · Good
- Consent to care and treatment3 · Good
Caring 90%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity4 · Exceptional
- Treating people as individuals4 · Exceptional
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement4 · Exceptional
Responsive 75%
- Person-centred Care3 · Good
- Care provision, Integration and continuity3 · Good
- Providing Information3 · Good
- Listening to and involving people3 · Good
- Equity in access3 · Good
- Equity in experiences and outcomes3 · Good
- Planning for the future3 · Good
Well-led 79%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion4 · Exceptional
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 17 October 2024, published 18 November 2024, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Rating history
- Oct 2018
- Nov 2019
- Nov 2024
- Today Rating 1 year old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Wareham
- Council
- Dorset Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Integrated care board
- NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Larger rural: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% most deprived areas in England
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Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). Carers work from this office and visit homes in the surrounding area.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score65 of 67 in Dorset
- Effective75% score63 of 67 in Dorset
- Caring90% score8 of 67 in Dorset
- Responsive75% score63 of 67 in Dorset
- Well-led79% score59 of 67 in Dorset
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 18 November 2024. Under each rating: how many agencies in Dorset share it; for example, 8 of 67 agencies in Dorset rated Outstanding for Caring.
Ownership and company checks
Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham is run by Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited (company 04395039), incorporated in 2002, 21 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 4 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other human health activities.
Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited runs 12 CQC-registered services across 6 council areas; 9 of the 9 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.
5 of its services are in Dorset.
Specialisms
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
Track record
Registered in March 2023, it has 3 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2018–2024), starting at Requires improvement and improving to Good.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham 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.
A live-in carer typically costs £1,450–£1,770 a week locally.
People with savings under £23,250 may get help from Dorset Council after a needs and financial assessment.
Choice nearby
Choice is thinner here: the nearest other agency is Mencap - Dorset Support Service, 3.4 miles away.
9 of the 22 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Wareham 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 Dorset ICB.
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Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham against its area
- Rated Good. Across Dorset, 98% of the 66 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 3 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (November 2024) is more recent than 56% of agency ratings in Dorset.
- Registered with CQC in 2023: it has been registered longer than 33% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Dorset lists 5.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Dorset (Oct 2026).
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Frequently asked about Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham
- Who is the registered provider for Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham?
- The registered provider is Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited, according to CQC.
- What services is Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham registered for?
- CQC lists Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham under: homecare agencies. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- How is Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham rated for safety and leadership?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Outstanding; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- What are Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham's fees?
- Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham 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 Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham a registered provider?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a home care agency under location ID 1-15118903732 and was rated Good overall in November 2024.
- Where is Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham?
- Its office is at 20 South Street, Wareham, BH20 4LT. Carers travel to people's homes, so check it covers your street.
- When was Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham last inspected?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 18 November 2024, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- Is Altogether Care - Care At Home Limited Wareham registered for dementia care?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
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