Home care agency · Manchester
Tamar (Manchester)
Illustrative photo, not of Tamar (Manchester)- Address
- 43 Bury New Road, Manchester, M25 9JY
- Run by
- Tamar Care (London) 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 2020 (6 years)
- Registered manager
- Gideon Schulman Anita Pendlebury
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2016 (10 years), accounts overdue (Companies House 10054278)
- Last CQC check
- 26 Apr 2022
- 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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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-8002493444
Introducing Tamar (Manchester)
Registered with CQC as a home care agency, Tamar (Manchester) is based in Manchester, run by Tamar Care (London) Limited. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities, mental health conditions, sight or hearing loss and eating disorders.
Its latest CQC rating is Requires improvement overall (April 2022). Safe, Effective and Well-led were rated Requires improvement. It is one of 316 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Prestwich; 158 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Tamar (Manchester) 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.
If savings are under the upper limit (£23,250 in England), Bury Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
The registered provider
Tamar (Manchester) is run by Tamar Care (london) Limited (company 10054278), incorporated in 2016, 3 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are overdue, its confirmation statement is overdue, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
Who they support
Specialisms as registered with CQC.
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 Care At Home, under 0.5 miles away.
10 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Sedgley ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 40% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS Greater Manchester ICB.
Ratings for safety, care and leadership
- Safe3 of 37 in Bury
- Effective2 of 37 in Bury
- Caring35 of 37 in Bury
- Responsive35 of 37 in Bury
- Well-led3 of 37 in Bury
As rated by CQC, published 26 April 2022. Under each rating: how many agencies in Bury share it.
History with CQC
CQC registration dates from January 2020, so the service has been operating for around 6 years under its current registration.
There is a single overall rating on record, Requires improvement (April 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.
Reading Tamar (Manchester)'s CQC ratings
For Tamar (Manchester), Safe, Effective and Well-led are rated below Good; 2 other areas are Good.
Across Bury, 3 of 37 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Safe (8%), while 2 of 37 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Effective (5%), while 3 of 37 rated agencies are Requires improvement for Well-led (8%).
If you are considering it, read the Safe, Effective and Well-led section of the report first and ask what has changed since the inspection.
The inspection, summarised
- Medicines were not managed or monitored effectively.
- Records for medicines were not completed in line with good practice and we could not identify who had given them.
- Staff also had not been trained in the administer of medicines.
- There were several documents missing from the recruitment and selection process to check if staff were suitable to work at the service, such as gaps in employment history unexplained and references not always being obtained.
Inspected 22 March 2022; report published 26 April 2022. Quoted from the CQC report summary, Open Government Licence. Read the full report.
Past CQC ratings
- Apr 2022
- Today Rating 4 years old
Published CQC ratings in date order.
CQC documents
- CQC inspection report 26 April 2022
Finding it
- Ward
- Sedgley
- Council
- Bury Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bury South
- NHS area (integrated care board)
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban (nearer to a major town or city)
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 40% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in M25 (6)
View on OpenStreetMap · How to get there · © OpenStreetMap contributors
Ward and NHS boundaries from official postcode data, Open Government Licence. This is the agency's office; care is delivered in people's own homes around it.
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Where Tamar (Manchester) stands locally
- Rated Requires improvement. Across Bury, 95% of the 37 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (April 2022) is more recent than 41% of agency ratings in Bury.
- Registered with CQC in 2020: it has been registered longer than 57% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Bury lists 5.
- Areas CQC rated below Good: Safe (5% of home care agencies in Bury are also rated below Good here); Effective (5% of home care agencies in Bury are also rated below Good here); Well-led (8% of home care agencies in Bury are also rated below Good here). Ask the provider what has changed since.
Benchmarked against all CQC-registered home care agencies in Bury (Oct 2026).
Other agencies close by
Guides for families
Newer ratings near Manchester
- Roxhsana LtdAug 2026 · 6.0 miles
- Choices for Living Well (Killelea)Feb 2025 · 6.3 miles
- Meridian Health and Social Care - Manchester NorthMar 2026 · 1.1 miles
Quick answers about Tamar (Manchester)
- What type of care does Tamar (Manchester) provide?
- Registration for Tamar (Manchester) covers: homecare agencies. Check which of these it offers today.
- Who is the registered provider for Tamar (Manchester)?
- Tamar Care (London) Limited is the registered provider for Tamar (Manchester).
- What are Tamar (Manchester)'s fees?
- Tamar (Manchester) hasn't shared a price list with us. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- How is Tamar (Manchester) rated for safety and leadership?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Requires improvement; Effective: Requires improvement; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Requires improvement. Safe and Well-led tend to say most about day-to-day reliability.
- What is Tamar (Manchester)'s address?
- The agency works from 43 Bury New Road, Manchester, M25 9JY; ask which postcodes its carers cover.
- Is Tamar (Manchester) a registered provider?
- It is. The CQC register records Tamar (Manchester) as a home care agency, location ID 1-8002493444 and was rated Requires improvement overall in April 2022.
- Is Tamar (Manchester) registered for dementia care?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- How recent is Tamar (Manchester)'s CQC rating?
- 26 April 2022 is when the current rating was published, 4 years ago. Check what has changed since, such as the manager or staffing.
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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.