Home care agency · Tonbridge
Inspire Care Agencies Limited
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- 10 Quarry Hill Parade, Tonbridge, TN9 2HR
- Run by
- Inspire Care Agencies Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Not listed as a specialism with CQC; ask the provider
- Registered with CQC
- November 2022 (3 years)
- Registered manager
- Deeann Frances Corker Jaison Alappat Johny
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2017 (9 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 10619821)
- Last CQC check
- 1 May 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
Regulated activities on its registration: Personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-14138578592
Introducing Inspire Care Agencies Limited
Registered with CQC as a home care agency, Inspire Care Agencies Limited is based in Tonbridge. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in physical disabilities and sight or hearing loss.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (May 2025). It is one of 35 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Tonbridge; 18 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
How it fits locally
There are 15 other agencies within 3 miles, 7 of them rated Good or Outstanding; the nearest is SAP Care Services Limited, under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 17 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Judd 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 Kent and Medway ICB.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Inspire Care Agencies Limited 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.
Kent Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
Registered specialisms
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from November 2022, so the service has been operating for around 3 years under its current registration.
CQC has rated it once overall, as Good, in May 2025.
What the ratings tell you
All five areas CQC looks at are rated Good for Inspire Care Agencies Limited: no single area stands out above or below the rest.
For leadership (Well-led), it shares its Good rating with 159 of the 225 other agencies in Kent 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, Inspire Care Agencies Limited 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
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 27 March 2025, published 1 May 2025 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
Area and map
- Ward
- Judd
- Council
- Kent County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Tonbridge
- NHS planning area
- NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in TN9 (8)
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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.
From the latest CQC inspection
- This is help with tasks related to personal hygiene and eating.
- Where they do, we consider any wider social care provided.
- This service had a registered manager (RM) in place.
- Telling us, “They are very caring, always talk to [relatives name] and do genuinely seem to care, if he hasn’t been well, they check up and see how he is.
From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
CQC ratings, area by area
- Safe75% score178 of 226 in Kent
- Effective75% score194 of 226 in Kent
- Caring75% score203 of 226 in Kent
- Responsive75% score198 of 225 in Kent
- Well-led75% score160 of 226 in Kent
As rated by CQC, published 1 May 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Kent share it.
Ownership and company checks
Inspire Care Agencies Limited is run by Inspire Care Agencies Limited (company 10619821), incorporated in 2017, 5 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, its confirmation statement is overdue, it has 2 active directors, there is no insolvency history and it has registered charges (usually loans secured on property).
Its registered business activity is care for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or substance misuse, residential care for older and disabled people and social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
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How Inspire Care Agencies Limited compares
- Rated Good. Across Kent, 82% of the 222 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 11 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (May 2025) is more recent than 86% of agency ratings in Kent.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 42% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 4 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Kent lists 6.
Compared with every CQC-registered home care agency in Kent. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Questions about Inspire Care Agencies Limited
- What are Inspire Care Agencies Limited's fees?
- No fee list from Inspire Care Agencies Limited has reached us. 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.
- What kind of care can Inspire Care Agencies Limited offer?
- Registration for Inspire Care Agencies Limited covers: homecare agencies. Check which of these it offers today.
- What is Inspire Care Agencies Limited's address?
- The agency works from 10 Quarry Hill Parade, Tonbridge, TN9 2HR; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- Is Inspire Care Agencies Limited registered for dementia care?
- Dementia is not listed among the specialisms on its CQC registration. Ask the provider directly if this matters to you.
- How did Inspire Care Agencies Limited score on each CQC key question?
- 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.
- When did CQC last rate Inspire Care Agencies Limited?
- CQC published the current rating on 1 May 2025, 1 year ago. Older ratings are common, so ask about changes since.
- Is Inspire Care Agencies Limited registered with CQC?
- It is. The CQC register records Inspire Care Agencies Limited as a home care agency, location ID 1-14138578592 and was rated Good overall in May 2025.
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Information: Care Quality Commission, Oct 2026 (Open Government Licence v3.0). Sections in the provider's own words are theirs; we compiled everything else from public data. The Care Panel is independent and not a care provider.