Home care agency · Barnsley
Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services- Address
- Cockerham Hall, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, S70 2LT
- Run by
- Sun Healthcare Limited (6 services)
- Type of provider
- Independent (private company)
- Service
- Home care agency, Supported living
- Dementia
- Registered with CQC to support people living with dementia
- Registered with CQC
- November 2014 (11 years)
- Registered manager
- Justine Samantha Pearce
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2001 (25 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 04220821)
- Last CQC check
- 25 Mar 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £30–£37 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,450–£1,770 a week. Estimate only, from published local rates. How we estimate
Regulated activities on its registration: Personal care
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Read the full CQC inspection report · CQC location ID 1-1745246451
The service in brief
Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services in Barnsley is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency that also provides supported living, run by Sun Healthcare Limited. The service is registered to support adults of all ages and lists dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions, sight or hearing loss, drug or alcohol problems and eating disorders among its specialisms.
CQC rated it Good overall (March 2025). It is one of 55 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Barnsley; 48 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Likely fees
We estimate visits from Sun Health Care Domiciliary 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.
A live-in carer typically costs £1,450–£1,770 a week locally.
Barnsley Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
Inspection findings in brief
- Sun Healthcare Domiciliary Care Service is a supported living service providing support to people with a learning disability and autistic people, as well as those living with physical disabilities and or sensory needs.
- The location is also registered to provide homecare, but at the time of this assessment nobody was using this regulated activity.
- The outcomes for people using the service reflected the principles and values of 'Right support, right care, right culture' in the promotion of choice, control, independence and inclusion.
- Another person said, “Since living here my life is easier, better and I am happy” another person said, “I feel safe here and well looked after.” Relatives were mainly positive about the quality of support provided.
Inspected 6 June 2019; report published 22 June 2019. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Around Barnsley
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 22 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Home Instead Senior Care, under 0.5 miles away.
11 of the 24 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Central 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 South Yorkshire ICB.
The company behind Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services
Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services is run by Sun Healthcare Limited (company 04220821), incorporated in 2001, 13 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.
Its registered business activity is other residential care.
Sun Healthcare Limited runs 7 CQC-registered services across 4 council areas; 6 of the 7 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (86%), against 84% for the same mix of services across England.
3 of its services are in Barnsley.
CQC ratings, area by area
- Safe75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Effective75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Caring75% score51 of 51 in Barnsley
- Responsive75% score47 of 51 in Barnsley
- Well-led75% score45 of 51 in Barnsley
Source: CQC, published 25 March 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Barnsley share it.
Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services over the years
Registered in November 2014, it has 11 years on the CQC register.
CQC has published 3 overall ratings for it (2016–2025), starting at Good and staying Good every time.
2 reports have been published for this location, most recently on 22 June 2019.
Needs it is registered to meet
Taken from its CQC registration.
CQC's scores in detail
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, Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services 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 12 February 2025, published 25 March 2025, Open Government Licence. Statements without a score were not reassessed and their earlier result stands.
Earlier inspections
- Dec 2016
- Jun 2019
- Mar 2025
- Today Rating 1 year old
Published CQC ratings in date order.
Published inspection reports
- CQC inspection report 22 June 2019
- CQC inspection report 9 December 2016
Location and local area
- Ward
- Central
- Parliamentary constituency
- Barnsley North
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Setting
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in S70 (14)
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Area details from ONS and NHS postcode data via postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
The ratings in context
Sun Health Care Domiciliary 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 44 of the 50 other agencies in Barnsley 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.
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Where Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services stands locally
- Rated Good. Across Barnsley, 96% of the 51 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2025) is more recent than 59% of agency ratings in Barnsley.
- Registered with CQC in 2014: it has been registered longer than 82% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 9 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Barnsley lists 6.
Compared with every CQC-registered home care agency in Barnsley. Source: CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Questions about Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services
- Who runs Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services?
- On CQC's register the provider is Sun Healthcare Limited.
- What services is Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services registered for?
- Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services is registered for homecare agencies, supported living. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- How did Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- What are Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services's fees?
- No fee list from Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services 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.
- Is Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services a registered provider?
- Yes: CQC lists it as a home care agency under location ID 1-1745246451 and was rated Good overall in March 2025.
- Where is Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services?
- Its office is at Cockerham Hall, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, S70 2LT. Carers travel to people's homes, so check it covers your street.
- When did CQC last rate Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services?
- The rating now shown was published on 25 March 2025, 1 year ago. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Does Sun Health Care Domiciliary Care Services support people with dementia?
- Its registration includes dementia. Useful questions: how many staff hold dementia training, and how is a bad day handled?
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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.