Home care agency · Clacton-on-sea
Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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- 5 The Market Place, Station Road, Thorpe-le-soken, Clacton-on-sea, CO16 0HY
- Run by
- Bloomsbury Home Care Limited (6 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- November 2010 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Louise Christine Link
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2008 (18 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 06621179)
- Last CQC check
- 26 Feb 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
Registered activities: Personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-126716095
The service in brief
Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex is a CQC-registered home care agency in Clacton-on-sea, run by Bloomsbury Home Care Limited. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (February 2022). Well-led was rated Requires improvement. It is one of 26 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Clacton-on-Sea; 18 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Needs it is registered to meet
As listed with the regulator.
How it fits locally
There are 10 other agencies within 3 miles, 6 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Germane Care Group, under 0.5 miles away.
11 of the 18 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland ward, classed by ONS as smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Essex ICB.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex 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 care in this region typically runs £1,450–£1,770 a week.
If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), Essex Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
The ratings in context
Area by area, Well-led is rated below Good; 4 other areas are Good.
Across Essex, 57 of 312 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Well-led (18%).
If you are considering it, read the Well-led section of the report first and ask what has changed since the inspection.
History with CQC
Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex has been registered with CQC since November 2010, about 15 years.
CQC has published 6 overall ratings for it (2015–2022), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
It has gone 4 years without a new overall rating. CQC schedules inspections by risk, so this is not a bad sign in itself, though leadership may have moved on.
6 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 26 February 2022.
How its rating has changed
- Sep 2015
- Mar 2018
- Nov 2018
- May 2019
- Jul 2021
- Feb 2022
- Today Rating 4 years old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 26 February 2022
- CQC inspection report 23 July 2021
- CQC inspection report 14 May 2019
- CQC inspection report 9 November 2018
- CQC inspection report 3 March 2018
- CQC inspection report 7 September 2015
Finding it
- Ward
- Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland
- Council
- Essex County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Clacton
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Essex Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Smaller rural, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in CO16 (8)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. Carers work from this office and visit homes in the surrounding area.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe271 of 312 in Essex
- Effective290 of 311 in Essex
- Caring291 of 311 in Essex
- Responsive292 of 311 in Essex
- Well-led57 of 312 in Essex
Source: CQC, published 26 February 2022. Under each rating: how many agencies in Essex share it.
What inspectors found
- Staff had completed COVID-19 individual risk assessments to check for underlying health conditions or other characteristics that might place them at an increased risk of COVID-19, but these did not always give guidance on how the risk could be reduced.
- Medicines were managed safely, and staff had received appropriate training in this area.
- The provider had introduced a new medication competency assessment tool, however, staff required further training to use this tool appropriately.
- The provider had also introduced new oversight and quality check procedures, as these were new, there was little evidence that these processes were effective or embedded within the service.
Inspected 25 January 2022; report published 26 February 2022. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
The company behind Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex
Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex is run by Bloomsbury Home Care Limited (company 06621179), incorporated in 2008, 2 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Bloomsbury Home Care Limited runs 6 CQC-registered services across 5 council areas; 6 of the 6 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.
2 of its services are in Essex.
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Compared with other agencies locally
- Rated Good. Across Essex, 90% of the 310 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 12 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (February 2022) is more recent than 46% of agency ratings in Essex.
- Registered with CQC in 2010, it is one of the longest-registered home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Essex lists 6.
- Areas CQC rated below Good: Well-led (18% of home care agencies in Essex are also rated below Good here). Ask the provider what has changed since.
Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Essex, CQC data for Oct 2026.
Nearest home care agencies
Guides for families
Clacton-on-Sea: home care agencies inspected recently
- All 4U CareApr 2026 · 0.8 miles
- Ivy Grace Home Care LTD - Kirby Cross BranchJun 2026 · 1.2 miles
- Access Dignity Care LimitedMar 2025 · 1.5 miles
Frequently asked about Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex
- Is Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex as a home care agency, location ID 1-126716095 and was rated Good overall in February 2022.
- Where is Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex based?
- The agency works from 5 The Market Place, Station Road, Thorpe-le-soken, Clacton-on-sea, CO16 0HY; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- When was Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex last inspected?
- 26 February 2022 is when the current rating was published, 4 years ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Is Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex registered for dementia care?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- Which provider runs Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex?
- Bloomsbury Home Care Limited is the registered provider for Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex.
- What type of care does Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex provide?
- CQC lists Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex under: homecare agencies. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- How did Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex score on each CQC key question?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Requires improvement. Safe and Well-led are the two to read first in the report.
- How much does Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex charge?
- Bloomsbury Home Care - Essex hasn't shared a price list with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Get the quote in writing, including any extra charges.
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