Home care agency · Brierley Hill
SOS CARE SERVICES
Illustrative photo, not of SOS CARE SERVICES- Address
- Suites 2 and 5 Hellier House, Wychbury Court, Two Woods Lane, Brierley Hill, DY5 1TA
- Run by
- SOS Recruitment Group Limited
- Service
- Home care agency
- Registered with CQC
- February 2025 (1 year)
- Registered manager
- Lucie Marie Irving
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2018 (8 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 11354050)
- Last CQC check
- 10 Feb 2022
- 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
Registered to provide: Personal care
CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-21974391065
The service in brief
Registered with CQC as a home care agency, SOS CARE SERVICES is based in Brierley Hill, run by SOS Recruitment Group Limited. It supports adults of all ages and children, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (February 2022). It is one of 102 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Brierley Hill; 40 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Who runs it
SOS CARE SERVICES is run by Sos Recruitment Group Limited (company 11354050), incorporated in 2018, 6 years before this service registered with CQC.
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.
How CQC rated each area
- Safe29 of 37 in Dudley
- Effective33 of 37 in Dudley
- Caring35 of 37 in Dudley
- Responsive32 of 37 in Dudley
- Well-led27 of 37 in Dudley
From CQC's latest report, published 10 February 2022. Under each rating: how many agencies in Dudley share it.
SOS CARE SERVICES over the years
CQC registration dates from February 2025, so the service has been operating for around 1 year under its current registration.
CQC has rated it once overall, as Good, in February 2022.
No new overall rating has been published for 4 years. CQC re-inspects based on risk, so an old rating is not a bad sign in itself, but staff and management may have changed.
This rating belongs to the former operator. The current provider has not had its own inspection here yet.
Needs it is registered to meet
Taken from its CQC registration.
Past CQC ratings
- Feb 2022
- Today Rating 4 years old
The location's rating record from CQC, from first to latest.
Where it is
- Ward
- Brierley Hill & Wordsley South
- Parliamentary constituency
- Stourbridge
- NHS planning area
- NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in DY5 (15)
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Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Strengths and weak spots in the ratings
SOS CARE SERVICES 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 26 of the 36 other agencies in Dudley that CQC has rated.
Around Brierley Hill
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 12 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is LJM Homecare Limited, under 0.5 miles away.
4 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Brierley Hill & Wordsley South ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Black Country ICB.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from SOS CARE SERVICES 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.
For live-in care, expect around £1,450–£1,770 a week in this region.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Dudley Council for a free care needs assessment.
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How SOS CARE SERVICES compares
- Rated Good. Across Dudley, 81% of the 36 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 0 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (February 2022) is more recent than 61% of agency ratings in Dudley.
- Registered with CQC in 2025: it has been registered longer than 16% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 8 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Dudley lists 6.
Based on the CQC register for Dudley as at Oct 2026.
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SOS CARE SERVICES questions answered
- Is SOS CARE SERVICES rated well for safety?
- CQC rates five key questions. For SOS CARE SERVICES: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- What are SOS CARE SERVICES's fees?
- We don't have published prices from SOS CARE SERVICES 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.
- Who is the registered provider for SOS CARE SERVICES?
- On CQC's register the provider is SOS Recruitment Group Limited.
- What kind of care can SOS CARE SERVICES offer?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies. Ask SOS CARE SERVICES how it would adapt if needs increase.
- When did CQC last rate SOS CARE SERVICES?
- 10 February 2022 is when the current rating was published, 4 years ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
- Is SOS CARE SERVICES registered for dementia care?
- Dementia is listed on its CQC registration. Ask what dementia training staff have and how they handle distress or refusals.
- Is SOS CARE SERVICES a registered provider?
- It is. The CQC register records SOS CARE SERVICES as a home care agency, location ID 1-21974391065 and was rated Good overall in February 2022.
- What is SOS CARE SERVICES's address?
- The agency works from Suites 2 and 5 Hellier House, Wychbury Court, Two Woods Lane, Brierley Hill, DY5 1TA; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
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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.