Home care agency · Leeds
Anchor Trust (The Laureates)
Illustrative photo, not of Anchor Trust (The Laureates)- Address
- Shakespeare Road, Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 9BJ
- Run by
- Anchor Hanover Group (131 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- September 2012 (14 years)
- Part of
- Anchor
- Registered manager
- Claire Alison Reed
- Company check
- Unknown, accounts up to date (Companies House RS007843)
- Last CQC check
- 26 Mar 2026
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. An estimate based on local published fees. Ask for a written quote. How we estimate
Regulated activities on its registration: Personal care
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-126242468
About Anchor Trust (The Laureates)
Anchor Trust (The Laureates) is a CQC-registered home care agency in Leeds, run by Anchor Hanover Group. It is registered to support adults of all ages.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (March 2026). It is one of 41 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Guiseley; 28 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
The inspection, summarised
- People said they felt safe, respected and well supported, described staff as friendly and kind, and had choice in daily decisions.
- Many staff had worked at the service for years, and inspectors found staff were safely recruited, trained and supported through supervision.
- People were protected from avoidable harm, incidents were managed and learned from, and alarms and a 24-hour call hub provided security.
- Governance was robust, with regular audits feeding an overall action plan, and leaders were described as approachable and supportive.
Inspected 11 February 2026; report published 26 March 2026; supporting 17 people at the time; registered manager: Claire Alison Reed. Plain-English points drawn from CQC's report (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Who they support
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Track record
Registered in September 2012, it has 14 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2015–2026), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
The CQC website holds 4 reports for it, the latest from 12 December 2017.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from Anchor Trust (The Laureates) 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.
For live-in care, expect around £1,450–£1,770 a week in this region.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Leeds Council for a free care needs assessment.
The registered provider
Anchor Trust (The Laureates) is run by Anchor Hanover Group (company RS007843).
At Companies House, the company is listed as , its accounts are filed on time and there is no insolvency history.
Anchor Hanover Group runs 131 CQC-registered services across 57 council areas; 110 of the 129 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (85%), against 83% for the same mix of services across England.
12 of its services are in Leeds.
It trades under the Anchor brand, which covers 131 services run by 1 registered provider.
Choice nearby
There are 12 other agencies within 3 miles, 8 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Radfield Home Care North Leeds & Ilkley, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 18 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Guiseley & Rawdon ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS West Yorkshire ICB.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe75% score117 of 150 in Leeds
- Effective75% score132 of 150 in Leeds
- Caring75% score138 of 149 in Leeds
- Responsive75% score134 of 150 in Leeds
- Well-led75% score103 of 150 in Leeds
As rated by CQC, published 26 March 2026. Under each rating: how many agencies in Leeds share it.
Reading Anchor Trust (The Laureates)'s CQC ratings
Anchor Trust (The Laureates) 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 102 of the 149 other agencies in Leeds that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
Detailed scores
Under its newer approach, CQC marks each "quality statement" from 1 to 4 and converts the marks into a percentage per area. Averaged across the five areas, Anchor Trust (The Laureates) scores 75%.
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 75%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control3 · Good
- Responding to people’s immediate needs3 · Good
- Workforce wellbeing and enablement3 · Good
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 75%
- Shared direction and culture3 · Good
- Capable, compassionate and inclusive leaders3 · Good
- Freedom to speak up3 · Good
- Workforce equality, diversity and inclusion3 · Good
- Governance, management and sustainability3 · Good
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 8 February 2026, published 26 March 2026 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
Ratings over time
- Oct 2015
- Dec 2017
- Mar 2026
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
The location's rating record from CQC, from first to latest.
Inspection reports to read
- CQC inspection report 12 December 2017
- CQC inspection report 28 October 2015
- Inspection report 9 November 2013
- Inspection report 30 July 2013
Finding it
- Ward
- Guiseley & Rawdon
- Council
- Leeds City Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Leeds North West
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
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Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). Care happens at home, not here: this is where the agency is run from.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed Anchor Trust (The Laureates) on The Care Panel so far.
Reviews are from families and clients and are separate from CQC ratings. Each one is checked against a real email address; we publish good and bad reviews and providers cannot edit or remove them. How reviews work.
Where Anchor Trust (The Laureates) stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Leeds, 83% of the 143 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2026) is more recent than 86% of agency ratings in Leeds.
- Registered with CQC in 2012: it has been registered longer than 90% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 2 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Leeds lists 5.
Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Leeds, CQC data for Oct 2026.
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Anchor Trust (The Laureates): common questions
- What is Anchor Trust (The Laureates)'s address?
- The agency works from Shakespeare Road, Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 9BJ; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- Is Anchor Trust (The Laureates) a registered provider?
- Anchor Trust (The Laureates) is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-126242468) and was rated Good overall in March 2026.
- Can Anchor Trust (The Laureates) care for someone with dementia?
- Its CQC registration does not list dementia. If that is a need now or later, check with the provider before deciding.
- How recent is Anchor Trust (The Laureates)'s CQC rating?
- 26 March 2026 is when the current rating was published. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- What kind of care can Anchor Trust (The Laureates) offer?
- CQC lists Anchor Trust (The Laureates) under: homecare agencies. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- Who runs Anchor Trust (The Laureates)?
- Anchor Trust (The Laureates) is run by Anchor Hanover Group, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- How much does care from Anchor Trust (The Laureates) cost?
- Anchor Trust (The Laureates) 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 Anchor Trust (The Laureates) rated well for safety?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
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