Home care agency · Derby
The College Business Centre
Typical fee here £30–£37 an hour Estimate
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Illustrative photo, not of The College Business Centre- Address
- Office 34, College Business Centre, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby, DE22 3WZ
- Run by
- TKS Staffing Limited
- 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
- January 2024 (2 years)
- Registered manager
- Tapiwa Ketai Simba
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2014 (11 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09303403)
- Last CQC check
- 22 Mar 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
Licensed by CQC for: Personal care · Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-18534809695
Introducing The College Business Centre
Registered with CQC as a home care agency that also provides supported living, The College Business Centre is based in Derby, run by TKS Staffing Limited. It supports adults of all ages and children, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (March 2022). It is one of 132 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Derby; 69 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Registered specialisms
As listed with the regulator.
Ownership and company checks
The College Business Centre is run by Tks Staffing Ltd (company 09303403), incorporated in 2014, 9 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 human health activities and social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Each area CQC checks
- Safe61 of 70 in Derby
- Effective64 of 70 in Derby
- Caring67 of 70 in Derby
- Responsive68 of 70 in Derby
- Well-led59 of 70 in Derby
Source: CQC, published 22 March 2022. Under each rating: how many agencies in Derby share it.
How its rating has changed
- Mar 2022
- Today Rating 4 years old
Overall ratings CQC has published for this location, oldest first.
Map and area details
- Ward
- Abbey
- Council
- Derby City Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Derby North
- NHS planning area
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Urban: nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 20% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in DE22 (16)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. Care happens at home, not here: this is where the agency is run from.
Track record
Registered in January 2024, it has 2 years on the CQC register.
So far CQC has published one overall rating: Good, in March 2022.
4 years have passed since the last overall rating. Services judged lower-risk wait longer for a visit, but teams change, so check what is different today.
This rating belongs to the former operator. The current provider has not had its own inspection here yet.
What the ratings tell you
The College Business Centre 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 58 of the 69 other agencies in Derby that CQC has rated.
Choice nearby
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 16 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is ICare GB Limited - Derby Care Office, under 0.5 miles away.
11 of the 16 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Abbey 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 Derby and Derbyshire ICB.
Costs to expect
We estimate visits from The College Business Centre 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), Derby Council may pay part of the cost after a free care needs assessment.
Family reviews
No family has reviewed The College Business Centre on The Care Panel so far.
We check every review against a working email address and publish positive and negative ones alike; providers can reply but cannot remove them. Reviews are separate from CQC ratings. How reviews work.
The College Business Centre in local context
- Rated Good. Across Derby, 91% of the 70 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 1 is Outstanding.
- Its rating (March 2022) is more recent than 40% of agency ratings in Derby.
- Registered with CQC in 2024: it has been registered longer than 23% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Derby lists 6.
All figures compare it with other home care agencies in Derby; CQC register, Oct 2026.
Nearest home care agencies
Guides for families
Recently rated home care agencies near Derby
- Profad Care Agency LimitedApr 2025 · under 0.5 miles
- Derbyshire Care Services HQSep 2025 · 0.6 miles
- Derby OfficeOct 2026 · 0.7 miles
What families ask about The College Business Centre
- Is The College Business Centre a registered provider?
- The College Business Centre is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-18534809695) and was rated Good overall in March 2022.
- Where is The College Business Centre?
- Office 34, College Business Centre, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby, DE22 3WZ. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- How recent is The College Business Centre's CQC rating?
- The latest rating is dated 22 March 2022, 4 years ago; ask whether there have been changes since.
- Is The College Business Centre registered for dementia care?
- Dementia appears among its CQC specialisms; ask about staff training and how care adapts as dementia progresses.
- Who runs The College Business Centre?
- CQC lists TKS Staffing Limited as the provider responsible for The College Business Centre.
- What type of care does The College Business Centre provide?
- The College Business Centre is registered for homecare agencies, supported living. Ask which of these it provides at the moment.
- How is The College Business Centre rated for safety and leadership?
- CQC rates five key questions. For The College Business Centre: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Read Safe and Well-led first; they say most about reliability.
- What are The College Business Centre's fees?
- We don't have published prices from The College Business Centre yet. Visiting care typically costs around £32–£34 an hour (typical 2026 prices across England). A written quote should spell out weekend, bank holiday and short-notice rates.
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Details from the Care Quality Commission register, updated Oct 2026. Contains CQC data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Text marked "in the provider's own words" is supplied by the provider. The Care Panel is not a care provider.