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Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet)

Rated Good by CQC Rating published 18 June 2026 Rated in the last 12 months

Typical fee here £34–£41.50 an hour Estimate

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Address
Unit 4, Breasy Place, 9 Burroughs Gardens, London, NW4 4AT
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
Omowunmi Abebi Taiye Raufu
Company check
Active, trading since 2019 (7 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 12118817)
Last CQC check
18 Jun 2026
Typical fees Estimated
£34–£41.50 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,620–£1,980 a week. Our estimate from published local prices, not a quote. How we estimate

Registered to provide: Personal care

Open CQC's full report · CQC location ID 1-14404106505

The service in brief

Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) is a CQC-registered home care agency in Barnet, run by Exceptional Care At Home Limited. Its CQC registration covers adults of all ages, including people living with dementia.

At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (June 2026). It is one of 95 CQC-registered home care agencies that are based in the borough of Barnet; 63 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

History with CQC

Registered in March 2023, it has 3 years on the CQC register.

Its only published overall rating so far is Good, from June 2026.

Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led

  • SafeGood75% score61 of 66 in Barnet
  • EffectiveGood75% score63 of 66 in Barnet
  • CaringGood75% score63 of 66 in Barnet
  • ResponsiveGood75% score64 of 66 in Barnet
  • Well-ledGood75% score57 of 66 in Barnet

Ratings from CQC's most recent report, published 18 June 2026. Under each rating: how many agencies in Barnet share it.

Who runs it

Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) is run by Exceptional Care At Home Limited (company 12118817), incorporated in 2019, 3 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 nursing care and residential care for older and disabled people.

Exceptional Care At Home Limited runs 4 CQC-registered services across 4 council areas; 2 of the 2 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (100%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.

Registered specialisms

Registration details from CQC.

How it fits locally

Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 15 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Hope Homecare Services Finchley, under 0.5 miles away.

2 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.

It sits in Hendon 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 West and North London ICB.

Budgeting for this agency

We estimate visits from Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) at £34–£41.50 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 £390 a week.

Live-in arrangements here usually cost £1,620–£1,980 weekly.

Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Barnet Council for a free care needs assessment.

Percentage scores by area

Each area below is made up of several quality statements, each scored 1 to 4 by CQC; the percentage combines those scores for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) scores 75%.

Safe Good 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 Good 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 Good 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 Good 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 Good 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

Key: 4 = exceptional, 3 = good, 2 = some shortfalls, 1 = significant shortfalls. Source: CQC, assessed 24 February 2026, published 18 June 2026, Open Government Licence. Unscored statements weren't reviewed this time and keep their previous result.

Area and map

Ward
Hendon
Parliamentary constituency
Hendon
Integrated care board
NHS West and North London 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 NW4 (8)

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Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence. A home care agency's office address; carers travel to people's homes nearby.

What inspectors found

  • The assessment took place from 24 April to 2 June 2026.
  • A site visit to the office was carried out on 27 April 2026.
  • We found the service had established structured and effective systems to support safe care delivery and oversight, and evidence seen during the assessment indicated these were being applied in practice.
  • Feedback from people and their relatives consistently described a positive overall experience of the service.

Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.

Strengths and weak spots in the ratings

All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet): no single area stands out above or below the rest.

For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 56 of the 65 other agencies in Barnet 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.

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Where Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) stands locally

  • Rated Good. Across Barnet, 95% of the 66 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
  • Its rating (June 2026) is more recent than 91% of agency ratings in Barnet.
  • Registered with CQC in 2023: it has been registered longer than 28% of home care agencies in the area.
  • It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Barnet lists 6.

Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Barnet, CQC data for Oct 2026.

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Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet): common questions

How is Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) rated for safety and leadership?
The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
How much does care from Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) cost?
Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet)'s prices aren't on our site yet. Visiting care typically costs £30–£40 an hour (typical 2026 prices in London). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
Who is the registered provider for Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet)?
The registered provider is Exceptional Care At Home Limited, according to CQC.
What services is Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) registered for?
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Can Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) care for someone with dementia?
Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
Is Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) a registered provider?
It is. The CQC register records Exceptional Care At Home (Barnet) as a home care agency, location ID 1-14404106505 and was rated Good overall in June 2026.
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