Home care agency · Barnsley
Gaia Home Care Ltd
Illustrative photo, not of Gaia Home Care Ltd- Address
- Midland Works, A1 Filey Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4PZ
- Run by
- Gaia Home 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
- December 2022 (3 years)
- Registered manager
- Michaela Elizabeth Gallamore
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2022 (4 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 14093845)
- Last CQC check
- 20 Aug 2025
- 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
Registered activities: Personal care
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CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-14388677553
The service in brief
Gaia Home Care Ltd in Barnsley 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, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (August 2025). It is one of 48 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Grimethorpe; 37 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Specialisms
From the CQC register; ask how each need is met in practice.
Who runs it
Gaia Home Care Ltd is run by Gaia Home Care Ltd (company 14093845), incorporated in 2022.
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 human health activities.
Track record
Gaia Home Care Ltd has been registered with CQC since December 2022, about 3 years.
One overall rating to date: Good, published August 2025.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
CQC rated every one of the five key questions Good here, so there is no weak spot in the published ratings.
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 Well-led at 75%, averaging 75% overall.
Scores behind the rating
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, Gaia Home Care Ltd 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
4 means exceptional and 1 means significant shortfalls (3 good, 2 some shortfalls). CQC data, assessed 19 July 2025, published 20 August 2025, Open Government Licence. Where no score shows, that statement wasn't part of this assessment and its earlier result still counts.
Area and map
- Ward
- Royston
- Parliamentary constituency
- Barnsley North
- NHS planning area
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- ONS area type
- Urban: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in S71 (20)
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Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence. The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from Gaia Home Care 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.
Regional live-in prices sit at roughly £1,450–£1,770 per week.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Barnsley Council for a free care needs assessment.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Effective75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Caring75% score51 of 51 in Barnsley
- Responsive75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Well-led75% score45 of 51 in Barnsley
From CQC's latest report, published 20 August 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Barnsley share it.
From the latest CQC inspection
- Not everyone using the service received personal care.
- Where they do, we also consider any wider social care provided.
- At the time of this assessment there were 8 people receiving personal care.
- One person told us, “I am very happy with the carers.
Supporting 8 people at the time. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Choice nearby
There are 13 other agencies within 3 miles, 11 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Trust Home Care Ltd, 1.5 miles away.
7 of the 23 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Royston ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB.
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Compared with other agencies locally
- Rated Good. Across Barnsley, 96% of the 51 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (August 2025) is more recent than 78% of agency ratings in Barnsley.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 27% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 6 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Barnsley lists 6.
Comparison set: every registered home care agency in Barnsley, CQC data for Oct 2026.
Also nearby
Guides for families
Similar home care agencies near Barnsley, rated recently
- Elder years care LtdJul 2026 · under 0.5 miles
- Pearl Home Care LtdJan 2026 · 1.8 miles
- Sure Healthcare (Barnsley)Apr 2025 · 3.5 miles
Questions about Gaia Home Care Ltd
- What is Gaia Home Care Ltd's address?
- Midland Works, A1 Filey Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4PZ. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- What type of care does Gaia Home Care Ltd provide?
- Registration for Gaia Home Care Ltd covers: homecare agencies. Check which of these it offers today.
- How much does care from Gaia Home Care Ltd cost?
- Gaia Home Care Ltd has not published its fees with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- Is Gaia Home Care Ltd registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Gaia Home Care Ltd as a home care agency, location ID 1-14388677553 and was rated Good overall in August 2025.
- How recent is Gaia Home Care Ltd's CQC rating?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 20 August 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
- How did Gaia Home Care Ltd score on each CQC key question?
- 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.
- Can Gaia Home Care Ltd care for someone with dementia?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
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