Home care agency · Barnet
Winside Care
Illustrative photo, not of Winside Care- Address
- Office 1, Apex House, Grand Arcade, London, N12 0EH
- Run by
- Winside Solutions Limited
- Service
- Home care agency, Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- May 2018 (8 years)
- Registered manager
- Abimbola Osanyin Arowojolu
- Company check
- Active, trading since 2014 (12 years), accounts up to date (Companies House 09234853)
- Last CQC check
- 21 Nov 2025
- Typical fees Estimated
- £34–£41.50 an hour for visiting care, weekdays; live-in £1,620–£1,980 a week. Our figure, worked out from published prices in the region; the real price may differ. How we estimate
Registered activities: Personal care
See this service on the CQC website · CQC location ID 1-5229681404
Introducing Winside Care
Registered with CQC as a home care agency that also provides supported living, Winside Care is based in Barnet, run by Winside Solutions Limited. It supports adults of all ages, with registered specialisms in dementia, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and sight or hearing loss.
Its latest CQC rating is Good overall (November 2025). It is one of 95 CQC-registered home care agencies that are based in the borough of Barnet; 57 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
Safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
- Safe66% score61 of 66 in Barnet
- Effective71% score63 of 66 in Barnet
- Caring75% score63 of 66 in Barnet
- Responsive71% score64 of 66 in Barnet
- Well-led68% score57 of 66 in Barnet
As rated by CQC, published 21 November 2025. Under each rating: how many agencies in Barnet share it.
The inspection, summarised
- The service is a small care at home service providing care to adults of all ages living with physical disabilities and adults who have learning disabilities or who are autistic.
- The provider also provided some services to adults who did not receive direct support with personal care.
- There was a positive person centred culture at this service.
- People and a person’s relative were positive about the care and support they received from the staff and the provider.
From the regulator's own summary (Open Government Licence). Read the full report.
The registered provider
Winside Care is run by Winside Solutions Limited (company 09234853), incorporated in 2014, 3 years before this service registered with CQC.
At Companies House, the company is listed as active, its accounts are filed on time, it has 1 active director and there is no insolvency history.
History with CQC
Registered in May 2018, it has 8 years on the CQC register.
Its only published overall rating so far is Good, from November 2025.
Who they support
Taken from its CQC registration.
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 Optima Homecare, under 0.5 miles away.
3 of the 19 nearest rated agencies have a more recent rating than this one.
It sits in West Finchley ward, classed by ONS as urban (nearer to a major town or city), among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. NHS services here are planned by NHS West and North London ICB.
Detailed scores
Under its newer approach, CQC marks each "quality statement" from 1 to 4 and converts the marks into a percentage per area. Averaged across the five areas, Winside Care scores 70%.
Safe 66%
- Learning culture3 · Good
- Safe systems, pathways and transitions3 · Good
- Safeguarding3 · Good
- Involving people to manage risks3 · Good
- Safe environments2 · Some shortfalls
- Safe and effective staffing2 · Some shortfalls
- Infection prevention and control3 · Good
- Medicines optimisation2 · Some shortfalls
Effective 71%
- 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 treatment2 · Some shortfalls
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 71%
- 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 future2 · Some shortfalls
Well-led 68%
- 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 sustainability2 · Some shortfalls
- Partnerships and communities3 · Good
- Learning, improvement and innovation2 · Some shortfalls
Scores: 4 exceptional, 3 good, 2 some shortfalls, 1 significant shortfalls. From CQC's assessment, assessed 6 October 2025, published 21 November 2025 (Open Government Licence). A statement with no score was not looked at in this assessment; its earlier result still counts.
The neighbourhood
- Ward
- West Finchley
- Council
- London Borough of Barnet · paying for care
- Parliamentary constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green
- NHS planning area
- NHS West and North London Integrated Care Board
- Urban or rural
- Urban, nearer to a major town or city
- Neighbourhood deprivation
- Among the 50% least deprived areas in England
- Postcode district
- Home care in N12 (18)
Bigger map · Route planner · © OpenStreetMap contributors
Ward, NHS area and deprivation from ONS and NHS postcode data (postcodes.io, Open Government Licence). The office location; ask which streets and villages carers cover.
Reading Winside Care's CQC 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 56 of the 65 other agencies in Barnet that CQC has rated.
Under CQC's newer scoring, its strongest area is Caring at 75% and its lowest is Safe at 66%, averaging 70% overall.
Budgeting for this agency
We estimate visits from Winside Care at £34–£41.50 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 £390 a week.
Live-in care in this region typically runs £1,620–£1,980 a week.
Barnet Council can help with costs for people with savings under £23,250, starting with a free assessment.
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Winside Care in local context
- Rated Good. Across Barnet, 95% of the 66 rated home care agencies are Good or Outstanding and 2 are Outstanding.
- Its rating (November 2025) is more recent than 80% of agency ratings in Barnet.
- Registered with CQC in 2018: it has been registered longer than 59% of home care agencies in the area.
- It lists 7 specialisms with CQC; the typical agency in Barnet lists 6.
All figures compare it with other home care agencies in Barnet; CQC register, Oct 2026.
Nearest home care agencies
Guides for families
Other home care agencies near Barnet with recent ratings
- Right at Home Camden, Hampstead & Golders GreenNov 2024 · 2.8 miles
- Central HouseMar 2026 · under 0.5 miles
- Shine PartnershipsNov 2025 · 0.7 miles
Frequently asked about Winside Care
- How much does Winside Care charge?
- Winside Care has not published its fees with us. Visiting care typically costs £30–£40 an hour (typical 2026 prices in London). Ask for written prices covering weekends, bank holidays and any travel or set-up charges.
- How did Winside Care score on each CQC key question?
- By key question, CQC gave: Safe: Good; Effective: Good; Caring: Good; Responsive: Good; Well-led: Good. Start with Safe and Well-led when reading the report.
- What type of care does Winside Care provide?
- Its CQC registration covers homecare agencies, supported living. Ask Winside Care how it would adapt if needs increase.
- Which provider runs Winside Care?
- Winside Solutions Limited is the registered provider for Winside Care.
- Can Winside Care care for someone with dementia?
- Yes, it is registered for dementia. Worth asking: how many staff are trained, and how routines are kept consistent.
- When was Winside Care last inspected?
- The rating now shown was published on 21 November 2025. Ask what has changed since then, for example in management or staffing.
- Where is Winside Care based?
- Office 1, Apex House, Grand Arcade, London, N12 0EH. That is the office; visits happen in your own home, so confirm your area is covered.
- Is Winside Care a registered provider?
- Yes. Winside Care is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a home care agency (location ID 1-5229681404) and was rated Good overall in November 2025.
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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.