Home care agency · Blackburn
Exemplary Care Services Ltd
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of Exemplary Care Services Ltd- Address
- Unit 14, Capricorn Business Park, Blakewater Road, Blackburn, BB1 5QR
- Run by
- Exemplary Care Services Ltd
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- June 2022 (4 years)
- Registered manager
- Alenca Christina Gould
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2019 (7 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11825071)
- Last CQC check
- 25 Jan 2024
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimated from prices published locally; not a quote. How we estimate
Licensed by CQC for: Personal care
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Full report at cqc.org.uk · CQC location ID 1-13361677286
The service in brief
Exemplary Care Services Ltd in Blackburn is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, physical disabilities and learning disabilities among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (January 2024). It is one of 54 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Blackburn; 32 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Who the service is registered for
Registration details from CQC.
Inspection findings in brief
- People told us they felt safe and staff were kind and caring.
- There were sufficient numbers of staff deployed to meet people's needs and ensure their safety.
- Staff were recruited safely, and relevant checks had been carried out.
- People were supported by staff who had been trained and were appropriately supervised.
Inspected 10 January 2024; report published 25 January 2024. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe19 of 21 in Blackburn with Darwen
- Effective20 of 21 in Blackburn with Darwen
- Caring20 of 21 in Blackburn with Darwen
- Responsive20 of 21 in Blackburn with Darwen
- Well-led17 of 21 in Blackburn with Darwen
From CQC's latest report, published 25 January 2024. Under each rating: how many agencies in Blackburn with Darwen share it.
The registered provider
Exemplary Care Services Ltd is run by Exemplary Care Services Ltd (company 11825071), 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.
Past CQC ratings
- Jan 2024
- Today Rating 2 years old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 25 January 2024
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Little Harwood & Whitebirk
- Parliamentary constituency
- Blackburn
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in BB1 (25)
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Local area facts: ONS and NHS geography via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence. The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Track record
Registered in June 2022, it has 4 years on the CQC register.
CQC has rated it once overall, as Good, in January 2024.
Reading Exemplary Care Services Ltd's CQC ratings
Exemplary Care Services Ltd 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 16 of the 20 other agencies in Blackburn with Darwen that CQC has rated.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from Exemplary Care Services Ltd 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.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Blackburn with Darwen Council for a free care needs assessment.
Choice nearby
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 13 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is AHC Services Ltd TA Alpha Homecare Services, under 0.5 miles away.
4 of the 14 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Little Harwood & Whitebirk ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.
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Exemplary Care Services Ltd in local context
- Rated Good. Across Blackburn with Darwen, 90% of the 21 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 0 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (January 2024) is more recent than 67% of agency ratings in Blackburn with Darwen.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 59% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 5 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Blackburn with Darwen lists 5.
All figures compare it with other home care agencies in Blackburn with Darwen; CQC register, Oct 2026.
Nearby options
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Exemplary Care Services Ltd questions answered
- Can Exemplary Care Services Ltd care for someone with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Is Exemplary Care Services Ltd rated well for safety?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Exemplary Care Services Ltd: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- How recent is Exemplary Care Services Ltd's CQC rating?
- The rating now shown was published on 25 January 2024, 2 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Is Exemplary Care Services Ltd regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Yes. Exemplary Care Services Ltd is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency (location ID 1-13361677286) and was rated Good overall in January 2024.
- What are Exemplary Care Services Ltd's fees?
- We don't have published prices from Exemplary Care Services Ltd yet. 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.
- What kind of care can Exemplary Care Services Ltd offer?
- Exemplary Care Services Ltd is registered for homecare agencies. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- Where is Exemplary Care Services Ltd based?
- The agency works from Unit 14, Capricorn Business Park, Blakewater Road, Blackburn, BB1 5QR; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
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