Home care agency · Barnsley
Caremark (Barnsley)
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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- Unit 16, Building 1, The Business Village, Barnsley, S75 1JL
- Run by
- Focal Care Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- April 2014 (12 years)
- Part of
- Caremark
- Registered manager
- Sophie Melissa Hobson
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2011 (15 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 07602114)
- Last CQC check
- 8 May 2025
- 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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Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-1326680856
Introducing Caremark (Barnsley)
Caremark (Barnsley) is a CQC-registered home care agency in Barnsley, run by Focal Care Ltd. Its CQC registration covers older people, including people living with dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions, sight or hearing loss and eating disorders.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (May 2025). It is one of 55 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Barnsley; 48 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Who they support
Registration details from CQC.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from Caremark (Barnsley) 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.
If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), Barnsley Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
Around Barnsley
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 23 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Lotus Home Care Limited, under 0.5 miles away.
10 of the 25 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Darton West ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB.
The five key questions
- Safe69% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Effective67% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Caring75% score51 of 51 in Barnsley
- Responsive71% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Well-led71% score45 of 51 in Barnsley
Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 8 May 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Barnsley share it.
CQC's scores in detail
CQC now scores each area it inspects from 1 to 4 against a set of "quality statements", and turns those into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Caremark (Barnsley) scores 71%.
Safe 69%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe environments3 · Good
- Safe and effective staffing3 · Good
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
Effective 67%
- Assessing needs2 · Some shortfalls
- 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 treatment2 · Some shortfalls
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 71%
- 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 future2 · Some shortfalls
Well-led 71%
- 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 sustainability2 · Some shortfalls
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation3 · Good
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 9 January 2025, published 8 May 2025 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
Past CQC ratings
- Dec 2014
- Dec 2016
- Nov 2018
- Nov 2019
- May 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
Reports on the CQC website
- CQC inspection report 27 November 2019
- CQC inspection report 16 November 2018
- CQC inspection report 9 December 2016
- CQC inspection report 16 December 2014
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Darton West
- Parliamentary constituency
- Barnsley North
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in S75 (14)
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Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Caremark (Barnsley) over the years
CQC registration dates from April 2014, so the service has been operating for around 12 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 5 overall ratings for it (2014–2025), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
4 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 27 November 2019.
Reading Caremark (Barnsley)'s CQC ratings
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Caremark (Barnsley): no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 44 of the 50 other agencies in Barnsley that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Effective at 67%, averaging 71% overall.
Inspection findings in brief
- The service supported people of all ages, with different health and care needs.
- Not everyone who used the service received personal care.
- Personal care indicates that a person requires help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating.
- Some improvements were required to records about people’s care, risks and medicines.
Inspected 13 November 2019; report published 27 November 2019. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
The registered provider
Caremark (Barnsley) is run by Focal Care Ltd (company 07602114), incorporated in 2011, 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 2 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other social work without accommodation.
It trades under the Caremark brand, which covers 56 services run by 54 registered providers.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed Caremark (Barnsley) on The Care Panel so far.
Reviews come from people who used the service or their families, verified by email. They sit alongside, not instead of, CQC ratings, and providers cannot take them down. How reviews work.
Caremark (Barnsley) in local context
- Rated Good. Across Barnsley, 96% of the 51 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (May 2025) is more recent than 63% of agency ratings in Barnsley.
- Registered with CQC in 2014: it has been registered longer than 84% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Barnsley lists 6.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Barnsley (Oct 2026).
Nearby options
Guides for families
Other home care agencies near Barnsley with recent ratings
- Crossroads (Barnsley) LimitedMay 2026 · 0.8 miles
- BMBC Reablement ServiceJun 2025 · under 0.5 miles
- Honest Home CareJun 2025 · under 0.5 miles
Questions about Caremark (Barnsley)
- What are Caremark (Barnsley)'s fees?
- Caremark (Barnsley)'s prices aren't on our site yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- How is Caremark (Barnsley) rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led are the sections most worth your time.
- What kind of care can Caremark (Barnsley) offer?
- Caremark (Barnsley) is registered for homecare agencies. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- Who is the registered provider for Caremark (Barnsley)?
- Caremark (Barnsley) is run by Focal Care Ltd, the registered provider on the CQC register.
- Is Caremark (Barnsley) registered for dementia care?
- Yes, it is registered for dementia. Worth asking: how many staff are trained, and how routines are kept consistent.
- When was Caremark (Barnsley) last inspected?
- The latest rating is dated 8 May 2025, 1 year ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- Where is Caremark (Barnsley) based?
- Its office is at Unit 16, Building 1, The Business Village, Barnsley, S75 1JL. Carers travel to people's homes, so check it covers your street.
- Is Caremark (Barnsley) regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Registered, yes: location 1-1326680856 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a home care agency and was rated Good overall in May 2025.
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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.