Home care agency · Enfield
Helping Hands Barnet
Typical fee here £32–£39 an hour Estimate
Free · 2 minutes · No obligation · Families helped this month: 3
Illustrative photo, not of Helping Hands Barnet- Address
- 79-81 Chase Side, Southgate, Barnet, London, N14 5BU
- Run by
- Midshires Care Limited (150 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 2017 (8 years)
- Part of
- Midshires Care Ltd
- Registered manager
- Sophie Louise Barker
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2000 (26 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 03959933)
- Last CQC check
- 9 Sep 2026
- Typical fees Estimated
- £32–£39 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,540–£1,880 a week. Estimated from prices published locally (Helping Hands publishes rates a little below the national median, plus a travel charge); not a quote. How we estimate
CQC regulated activities: Personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-4487598240
An overview of Helping Hands Barnet
Helping Hands Barnet in Enfield is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency, run by Midshires Care Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia and physical disabilities among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (September 2026). It is one of 116 CQC-registered home care agencies that are based in the borough of Enfield; 64 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Who it can help
Taken from its CQC registration.
Helping Hands Barnet over the years
Registered in November 2017, it has 8 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 2 overall ratings for it (2019–2026), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
The company behind Helping Hands Barnet
Helping Hands Barnet is run by Midshires Care Limited (company 03959933), incorporated in 2000, 17 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 6 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Midshires Care Limited runs 150 CQC-registered services across 100 council areas; 130 of the 133 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (98%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.
It trades under the Midshires Care Ltd brand, which covers 150 services run by 1 registered provider.
Around Enfield
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 Avonview Domiciliary Care Agency, under 0.5 miles away.
Its rating is more recent than any of the 15 nearest rated agencies.
It sits in Southgate ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS West and North London ICB.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from Helping Hands Barnet at £32–£39 an hour (visiting care, weekdays), based on published prices in the region (Helping Hands publishes rates a little below the national median, plus a travel charge). As an example, an hour each morning and a 30-minute evening call comes to about £370 a week.
Regional live-in prices sit at roughly £1,540–£1,880 per week.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Enfield Council for a free care needs assessment.
Each area CQC checks
- Safe75% score60 of 74 in Enfield
- Effective75% score69 of 74 in Enfield
- Caring75% score70 of 74 in Enfield
- Responsive75% score64 of 74 in Enfield
- Well-led75% score56 of 74 in Enfield
From CQC's latest report, published 9 September 2026. Under each rating: how many agencies in Enfield share it.
Inspection findings in brief
- Who the service is for This service supports younger adults, older people and people living with dementia and physical disabilities who are living in their own homes.
- Instead, our findings focus on any areas where the service needs to improve or where we found exceptional practice.
- We checked whether the service was working within the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA).
- She really does care and is not in it just for the job and she wants mum to have a good quality of life”, “[Carer] chats and gets [relative] laughing.
Inspected 7 November 2018; report published 30 January 2019; supporting 51 people at the time. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
The ratings in context
Helping Hands Barnet 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 55 of the 73 other agencies in Enfield 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.
Detailed scores
Behind each rating sit scores of 1 to 4 for individual quality statements, which CQC turns into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Helping Hands Barnet 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
Scale: 1 (significant shortfalls) to 4 (exceptional). From CQC, assessed 24 July 2026, published 9 September 2026, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Earlier inspections
- Jan 2019
- Sep 2026
- Today Rated in the last 12 months
The location's rating record from CQC, from first to latest.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 30 January 2019
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- Southgate
- Council
- London Borough of Enfield · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Southgate and Wood Green
- NHS planning area
- NHS West and North London Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in N14 (11)
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Local area facts: ONS and NHS geography via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence. This is the agency's office; care is delivered in people's own homes around it.
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Helping Hands Barnet against its area
- Rated Good. Across Enfield, 89% of the 72 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 3 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (September 2026) is more recent than 96% of agency ratings in Enfield.
- Registered with CQC in 2017: it has been registered longer than 69% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Enfield lists 5.
Based on the CQC register for Enfield as at Oct 2026.
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What families ask about Helping Hands Barnet
- Where is Helping Hands Barnet based?
- The agency's base is 79-81 Chase Side, Southgate, Barnet, London, N14 5BU. Confirm that its carers travel to your area.
- Is Helping Hands Barnet registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Helping Hands Barnet as a home care agency, location ID 1-4487598240 and was rated Good overall in September 2026.
- Is Helping Hands Barnet registered for dementia care?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
- When did CQC last rate Helping Hands Barnet?
- CQC published the current rating on 9 September 2026. Older ratings are common, so ask about changes since.
- What kind of care can Helping Hands Barnet offer?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies. Ask Helping Hands Barnet how it would adapt if needs increase.
- Who runs Helping Hands Barnet?
- The registered provider is Midshires Care Limited, according to CQC.
- How much does care from Helping Hands Barnet cost?
- No fee list from Helping Hands Barnet has reached us. Visiting care typically costs £30–£40 an hour (typical 2026 prices in London). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
- Is Helping Hands Barnet rated well for safety?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
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Source: the CQC register as of Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0), with our own analysis. Anything marked "in the provider's own words" comes from the provider. The Care Panel does not provide care.