Home care agency · Christchurch
Homelium Dorset
Illustrative photo, not of Homelium Dorset- Address
- Office 8 Basepoint, Enterprise Close, Aviation Business Park, Christchurch, BH23 6NX
- Run by
- Homelium Care Limited (6 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- July 2023 (3 years)
- Registered manager
- *
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2021 (5 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 13319849)
- Last CQC check
- 17 Feb 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Our figure, worked out from published prices in the region; the real price may differ. How we estimate
Registered to provide: Personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-16371891511
About this agency
Homelium Dorset in Christchurch is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency, run by Homelium 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 (February 2025). It is one of 138 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Ferndown; 103 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
What it may cost
We estimate visits from Homelium Dorset 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 care in this region typically runs £1,450–£1,770 a week.
With savings below £23,250, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council may contribute once it has carried out a free needs assessment.
Reading Homelium Dorset's CQC 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 86 of the 91 other agencies in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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.
Percentage scores by area
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, Homelium Dorset 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
How to read the numbers: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. Published by CQC, assessed 20 January 2025, published 17 February 2025 under the Open Government Licence; a blank score means the statement was carried over unchanged.
Location and local area
- Ward
- Commons
- Parliamentary constituency
- Christchurch
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Smaller rural · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in BH23 (17)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. A home care agency's office address; carers travel to people's homes nearby.
Who they support
As listed with the regulator.
The local picture
There are 17 other agencies within 3 miles, 12 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is Sylviancare Bournemouth and Poole, under 0.5 miles away.
11 of the 19 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Commons ward, classed by ONS as smaller rural (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Dorset ICB.
How long it has been running
Homelium Dorset has been registered with CQC since July 2023, about 3 years.
One overall rating to date: Good, published February 2025.
CQC ratings, area by area
- Safe75% score90 of 92 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Effective75% score88 of 92 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Caring75% score83 of 92 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Responsive75% score87 of 92 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Well-led75% score87 of 92 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Source: CQC, published 17 February 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole share it.
The registered provider
Homelium Dorset is run by Homelium Care Ltd (company 13319849), incorporated in 2021, 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 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Homelium Care Limited runs 6 CQC-registered services across 6 council areas; 2 of the 3 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (67%), against 88% for the same mix of services across England.
The inspection, summarised
- The service was providing care and support to people in their own homes.
- Not everyone who used the service received personal care.
- This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating.
- People told us they were safe and could rely on the service they received from Homelium Dorset.
Supporting 70 people at the time. Taken from CQC's own findings (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed Homelium Dorset on The Care Panel so far.
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Homelium Dorset against its area
- Rated Good. Across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 99% of the 92 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 5 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (February 2025) is more recent than 68% of agency ratings in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
- Registered with CQC in 2023: it has been registered longer than 26% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole lists 6.
Based on the CQC register for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as at Oct 2026.
Nearest home care agencies
Guides for families
Other home care agencies near Christchurch with recent ratings
- Lewis-Manning Hospice CareAug 2026 · 6.5 miles
- Bridgewater CareAug 2026 · under 0.5 miles
- Green Lanes Projects LimitedJul 2025 · under 0.5 miles
Quick answers about Homelium Dorset
- Where is Homelium Dorset?
- The agency works from Office 8 Basepoint, Enterprise Close, Aviation Business Park, Christchurch, BH23 6NX; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- Is Homelium Dorset regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Homelium Dorset is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-16371891511) and was rated Good overall in February 2025.
- Is Homelium Dorset 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 Homelium Dorset?
- The latest rating is dated 17 February 2025, 1 year ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- What kind of care can Homelium Dorset offer?
- CQC lists Homelium Dorset under: homecare agencies. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- Who is the registered provider for Homelium Dorset?
- On CQC's register the provider is Homelium Care Limited.
- What are Homelium Dorset's fees?
- Homelium Dorset's prices aren't on our site yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Request a written quote and check what is charged on top.
- Is Homelium Dorset rated well for safety?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
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