Home care agency · Doncaster
Voyage (DCA) Doncaster
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- 59 Warmsworth Road, Doncaster, DN4 0RP
- Run by
- Voyage 1 Limited (278 services)
- Service
- Home care agency, Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- May 2022 (4 years)
- Part of
- Voyage
- Registered manager
- Anthony John Labrum
- Company check
- Active, trading since 1988 (38 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 02215899)
- Last CQC check
- 26 Sep 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
Registered to provide: Personal care
CQC page for this service · CQC location ID 1-13166345562
About this agency
Voyage (DCA) Doncaster is a CQC-registered home care agency that also provides supported living in Doncaster, run by Voyage 1 Limited. Its CQC registration covers adults under 65, including people living with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
At its most recent rating, CQC judged it Good overall (September 2025). It is one of 57 CQC-registered home care agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Doncaster; 37 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Reading Voyage (DCA) Doncaster's CQC ratings
Voyage (DCA) Doncaster 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 53 other agencies in Doncaster that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 80% and its lowest is Well-led at 75%, averaging 77% overall.
Percentage scores by area
Behind each rating sit scores of 1 to 4 for individual quality statements, which CQC turns into a percentage for the area. Averaged across the five areas, Voyage (DCA) Doncaster scores 77%.
Safe 78%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions4 · Exceptional
- 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 79%
- Assessing needs3 · Good
- Delivering evidence-based care and treatment4 · Exceptional
- 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 80%
- Kindness, compassion and dignity3 · Good
- Treating people as individuals3 · Good
- Independence, choice and control4 · Exceptional
- 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
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 23 August 2025, published 26 September 2025 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
Finding it
- Ward
- Balby South
- Council
- City of Doncaster Council · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Doncaster Central
- Local NHS (ICB)
- NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
- Area classification
- Urban; nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 10% most deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in DN4 (26)
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Geography: ONS and NHS lookups (postcodes.io), Open Government Licence. Carers work from this office and visit homes in the surrounding area.
What inspectors found
- This service provides care and support to people living in their own apartments within a supported living service so they can live as independently as possible.
- People’s care and housing are provided under separate contractual agreements.
- Not everyone using the service received personal care.
- We spent time talking to people in their apartments.
Supporting 6 people at the time. From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
History with CQC
Registered in May 2022, it has 4 years on the CQC register.
So far CQC has published one overall rating: Good, in September 2025.
The five key questions
- Safe78% score50 of 54 in Doncaster
- Effective79% score49 of 54 in Doncaster
- Caring80% score49 of 54 in Doncaster
- Responsive75% score47 of 54 in Doncaster
- Well-led75% score45 of 54 in Doncaster
Source: CQC, published 26 September 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Doncaster share it.
How it fits locally
Choice is wide here: the 25 nearest other agencies are all within 3 miles, 17 of them rated Good or Outstanding, and the closest is Lifeways SIL Limited (North East), under 0.5 miles away.
2 of the 17 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in Balby South ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS South Yorkshire ICB.
The registered provider
Voyage (DCA) Doncaster is run by Voyage 1 Limited (company 02215899), incorporated in 1988, 34 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 care for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or substance misuse and social work without accommodation for older and disabled people (which includes home care).
Voyage 1 Limited runs 280 CQC-registered services across 87 council areas; 244 of the 268 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (91%), against 84% for the same mix of services across England.
2 of its services are in Doncaster.
It trades under the Voyage brand, which covers 320 services run by 13 registered providers.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Voyage (DCA) Doncaster 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.
Regional live-in prices sit at roughly £1,450–£1,770 per week.
Doncaster Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
Who they support
Registration details from CQC.
Family reviews
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How Voyage (DCA) Doncaster compares
- Rated Good. Across Doncaster, 96% of the 54 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 5 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (September 2025) is more recent than 78% of agency ratings in Doncaster.
- Registered with CQC in 2022: it has been registered longer than 46% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 3 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Doncaster lists 6.
All figures compare it with other home care agencies in Doncaster; CQC register, Oct 2026.
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Frequently asked about Voyage (DCA) Doncaster
- What kind of care can Voyage (DCA) Doncaster offer?
- Voyage (DCA) Doncaster is registered with CQC for: homecare agencies, supported living. Ask the provider which needs it can meet now and as needs change.
- Who runs Voyage (DCA) Doncaster?
- The registered provider is Voyage 1 Limited, according to CQC.
- How much does Voyage (DCA) Doncaster charge?
- We don't have published prices from Voyage (DCA) Doncaster 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.
- How did Voyage (DCA) Doncaster score on each CQC key question?
- The five CQC areas: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- Where is Voyage (DCA) Doncaster based?
- 59 Warmsworth Road, Doncaster, DN4 0RP. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- Is Voyage (DCA) Doncaster regulated by the Care Quality Commission?
- Voyage (DCA) Doncaster is on the CQC register as a home care agency (ID 1-13166345562) and was rated Good overall in September 2025.
- Is Voyage (DCA) Doncaster registered for dementia care?
- Not as a registered specialism. Some services still support people with mild dementia, so ask.
- When was Voyage (DCA) Doncaster last inspected?
- Its current CQC rating dates from 26 September 2025, 1 year ago. Ratings can be several years old; ask what has changed since, such as a new manager.
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