Home care agency · Padiham
Spring Cottages Home Care Limited
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- Stone Moor Bottom, St John's Road, Padiham, BB12 7BS
- Run by
- Spring Cottages Home Care Limited
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- January 2011 (15 years)
- Registered manager
- Nicola Stott
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2003 (23 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 04677871)
- Last CQC check
- 13 Jan 2024
- 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
Regulated activities on its registration: Personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-127866038
An overview of Spring Cottages Home Care Limited
Spring Cottages Home Care Limited is a CQC-registered home care agency in Padiham. Its CQC registration covers older people, including people living with dementia and physical disabilities.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (January 2024). It is one of 83 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Burnley; 58 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from January 2011, so the service has been operating for around 15 years under its current registration.
CQC has published 4 overall ratings for it (2016–2024), starting at Good; it has gone up 1 and down 1 time, and is now Good.
There are 6 CQC reports on file for this address; the newest is from 13 January 2024.
The five key questions
- Safe194 of 212 in Lancashire
- Effective204 of 212 in Lancashire
- Caring199 of 212 in Lancashire
- Responsive197 of 212 in Lancashire
- Well-led191 of 212 in Lancashire
Source: CQC, published 13 January 2024. Under each rating: how many agencies in Lancashire share it.
Past CQC ratings
- Dec 2016
- Jul 2019
- Jul 2023
- Jan 2024
- Today Rating 2 years old
Every overall rating on record for this location, earliest first. The latest rating is an improvement on the one before.
CQC reports
- CQC inspection report 13 January 2024
- CQC inspection report 1 July 2023
- CQC inspection report 6 July 2019
- CQC inspection report 7 December 2016
- Inspection report 12 December 2013
- Inspection report 25 September 2013
Map and area details
- Ward
- Hapton with Park
- Council
- Lancashire County Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Burnley
- NHS planning area
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban · nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 30% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in BB12 (11)
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Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). A home care agency's office address; carers travel to people's homes nearby.
How it fits locally
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 15 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Helping Hands Accrington, 0.9 miles away.
5 of the 15 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Hapton with Park ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.
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 190 of the 211 other agencies in Lancashire that CQC has rated.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Spring Cottages Home Care 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 arrangements here usually cost £1,450–£1,770 weekly.
Council help is possible below £23,250 in savings: ask Lancashire Council for a free care needs assessment.
Needs it is registered to meet
As listed with the regulator.
Who runs it
Spring Cottages Home Care Limited is run by Spring Cottages Home Care Limited (company 04677871), incorporated in 2003, 7 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 3 active directors and there is no insolvency history.
Its registered business activity is other social work without accommodation.
Inspection findings in brief
- Systems were in place to safeguard people and investigate allegations of abuse.
- Risks were assessed, management confirmed all people's risk assessments would be checked to ensure they included detailed information about how to manage their needs.
- Staff were recruited safely, most staff confirmed they completed their choice of shift patterns.
- Staff told us there was sufficient staff in place.
Inspected 4 January 2024; report published 13 January 2024. Source: CQC's published findings, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
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How Spring Cottages Home Care Limited compares
- Rated Good. Across Lancashire, 97% of the 211 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 10 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (January 2024) is more recent than 79% of agency ratings in Lancashire.
- Registered with CQC in 2011: it has been registered longer than 92% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Lancashire lists 5.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Lancashire (Oct 2026).
Nearby options
Guides for families
Other home care agencies near Burnley with recent ratings
- Right At Home (East Lancashire & Ribble Valley)Sep 2026 · 6.7 miles
- Helping Hands AccringtonJan 2025 · 1.3 miles
- Majestic Care North West LimitedMar 2026 · 1.3 miles
What families ask about Spring Cottages Home Care Limited
- What type of care does Spring Cottages Home Care Limited provide?
- CQC lists Spring Cottages Home Care Limited under: homecare agencies. Check which of these it is actively providing now.
- How much does care from Spring Cottages Home Care Limited cost?
- We don't have published prices from Spring Cottages Home Care Limited yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for a written quote that includes weekend and bank holiday rates.
- Where is Spring Cottages Home Care Limited based?
- The agency's base is Stone Moor Bottom, St John's Road, Padiham, BB12 7BS. Confirm that its carers travel to your area.
- How did Spring Cottages Home Care Limited score on each CQC key question?
- CQC rates five key questions. For Spring Cottages Home Care Limited: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- Is Spring Cottages Home Care Limited registered for dementia care?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Is Spring Cottages Home Care Limited a registered provider?
- Registered, yes: location 1-127866038 on the Care Quality Commission register, listed as a home care agency and was rated Good overall in January 2024.
- When did CQC last rate Spring Cottages Home Care Limited?
- The rating now shown was published on 13 January 2024, 2 years ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
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