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Home care in Worthing

CQC lists 61 home care agencies covering Worthing, operated by 58 separate providers. Beehive Care Group runs the most, with 2. Among the 46 with a CQC rating, 96% are Good or Outstanding (versus 94% across West Sussex and 88% across England). 2 hold an Outstanding rating. Typical fees here come to about £33.50 an hour for visiting care and £1,610 a week for live-in careestimated. 28 home care agencies were last rated more than four years ago and 10 registered since November 2024. Most recently, Steps 2 Limited was rated Good on 29 September 2026.

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Source: CQC register · Updated 9 November 2026 · Open Government Licence

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Key points

CQC rates 44 of the 46 agencies with a rating as Good or Outstanding, 2 are rated Requires improvement or Inadequate. 15 are not rated yet.
We check for new CQC ratings in West Sussex daily: see the latest changes.
48 are registered with CQC to support people with dementia.
You can ask West Sussex council for a free care needs assessment; savings make no difference.

Cite this: The Care Panel, "Home care in Worthing", analysis of the CQC register, Nov 2026.

61registered agencies
96%rated Good or Outstanding (of those rated)
48list dementia as a specialism
15rated or inspected within two years

Typical prices in Worthing against South East and England, Nov 2026
Care	Worthing	South East	England
Visiting care, an hour	£33.50	£33.50	£33.50
Live-in care, a week	£1,610	£1,610	£1,610

Homecare Association minimum sustainable council rate for 2026/27: £34.42 an hour. West Sussex County Council pays: £28.92 an hour for home care (2025/26 average paid to agencies); £1,033.31 a week for residential care (2025/26 average, over-65s); £1,124.80 a week for nursing care (2025/26 average, over-65s) (council source). Worthing figures are medians of our estimates for each provider here; region and England figures are self-funder averages. How we estimate.

Worthing has one of the older populations in England and a correspondingly crowded home care market. This article covers what's available locally, who funds what, how to check a provider properly, and the free support that exists alongside paid care.

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Caremark Worthing & Adur provides home care across Worthing and Adur, including Broadwater, Durrington, Goring-by-Sea, Tarring, Lancing, Sompting, Shoreham-by-Sea and Southwick. Care is planned around each…

Dementia care at home in Worthing

48 of the 61 agencies covering Worthing are registered with CQC to support people living with dementia, and 33 of those are rated Good or Outstanding. Compare the 48 registered for dementia.

What the numbers say about Worthing

West Sussex has 5 Outstanding agencies in total; covering Worthing the figure is 2. Counting all listed agencies, not only rated ones, Worthing (72% Good or Outstanding) is 4th out of 7 local towns, led by Rustington (77%). Across West Sussex we list 298 agencies, and 92% of those rated are Good or Outstanding; covering Worthing the figure is 96%. Across West Sussex, 23% of agencies have a rating under two years old; covering Worthing it is 25%. CQC registered Prestige Nursing - Worthing in January 2026, the newest on this list. Looking at specialisms, 51 of 61 list physical disabilities, 30 of 61 list learning disabilities and 38 of 61 list mental health conditions. In Worthing, 79% of agencies support people with dementia (48 of 61); the West Sussex figure is 76%. One rating goes back to June 2018: Alina Homecare Lancing. Ask what has changed since.

Older people and dementia in Worthing

These figures cover Worthing as a whole.

Area	Aged 65+	Share of residents	Aged 85+	Change since 2021	Deprivation rank (2025)	Dementia diagnosis rate
Worthing	26,500	23.3%	4,300	+6.4%	186th of 296	75.3% (1,504 of 2,000)

The ONS mid-2025 estimate puts about 26,500 residents of Worthing aged 65 or over, 23.3% of the population (above the England figure of 19.1%), including about 4,300 aged 85 or over. That is a rise of 6.4% on the 2021 Census count. On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Worthing ranks 186th of 296 local authority areas in England by average neighbourhood score (1st is most deprived), in the middle third. On the older-people income deprivation measure (IDAOPI), an average of 13.2% of people aged 60 and over across its neighbourhoods experience income deprivation, ranking 168th of 296.

The estimated dementia diagnosis rate for people aged 65 and over in Worthing is 75.3% (1,504 diagnosed against an estimated 2,000 living with dementia), above the England rate of 66.3%; it meets the NHS ambition of 66.7%. That leaves roughly 490 people estimated to have dementia without a recorded diagnosis.

At neighbourhood level, the Worthing built-up area (ONS 2022 boundary) ranks 1,602nd of 3,793 built-up areas on the Indices of Deprivation 2025 (1st is most deprived), and 1,211th on older-people income deprivation, where 13.2% of people aged 60 and over experience income deprivation.

Sources: ONS mid-2025 population estimates and Census 2021; English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); OHID Fingertips dementia profile (estimated dementia diagnosis rate, aged 65 and over, 2026). Figures describe the whole local authority area, are rounded, and are not a forecast for any one neighbourhood.

Providers behind the agencies covering Worthing

Alina Homecare 2 in this list
Yourlife Management Services Limited 2 in this list
Abbeyfield Society 2 in this list
Acre Care Ltd 1 in this list
Everyday Recruitment Agency Limited 1 in this list
Guild Care 1 in this list
Care To You Healthcare Limited 1 in this list
Coastal Homecare (Hove) Limited 1 in this list
Independent Lifestyles Support Services LLP 1 in this list
Ethica Services Limited 1 in this list
New Venture Care Ltd 1 in this list
Midshires Care Limited 1 in this list
Guardian Angel Carers Ltd 1 in this list
Caremark 1 in this list
Essex Cares Limited 1 in this list
Agincare 1 in this list
Bluebird Care 1 in this list
Sutton Court Associates Limited 1 in this list

Latest CQC ratings

Ratings CQC published most recently, for agencies covering Worthing.

Steps 2 LimitedGood29 Sep 2026
Home Instead Worthing and SteyningGood18 Jun 2026
Guild Care Domiciliary CareGood17 Jun 2026
Everyday Recruitment AgencyGood29 May 2026

Worthing and the towns around it

Nearby town	Distance	Total	Good or Outstanding
Worthing	–	61	44
Findon	3.1 mi	46	32
Rustington	4.8 mi	57	44
Steyning	5.3 mi	58	39
Bramber	5.5 mi	19	14
Shoreham-by-Sea	5.7 mi	92	60

Agencies with an office within 7 miles of each town. Many cover several towns.

Local guide: home care in Worthing

Who provides home care in Worthing

Three routes, and most families end up using more than one:

West Sussex County Council. Commissions care from contracted agencies and runs its own reablement service, usually triggered on hospital discharge. Start with a free care needs assessment — a legal right regardless of savings.
Independent CQC-registered agencies. Dozens operate across BN11–BN14. You can buy from them privately or with a direct payment.
Introductory agencies and directly employed carers. Cheaper per hour, but you become the employer — contracts, payroll, insurance, cover. See how to choose an agency.

Whichever route you take, check the provider on the CQC website before committing. Anyone helping with washing, dressing or medication must be registered. Read the inspection date as well as the rating, and check whether the registered manager named in the report is still in post.

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What kinds of care are available locally

If you're seeing…	The usual starting point
Skipped meals, unopened post, a tired-looking home	Domestic care, 2–3 visits a week
Struggling to wash or dress safely	Personal care, daily calls
Loneliness after a bereavement or giving up driving	Companionship and accompanied outings
Memory changes, repeating questions, getting lost	Dementia-trained carers, consistent visit times
Night-time falls or wandering	Overnight care — waking or sleeping nights
A family carer who is exhausted	Respite care, hourly or live-in
Just discharged from Worthing Hospital	Reablement — free for up to six weeks

Unsure where you are on that list? Our article on the 10 signs a parent may need home care works through what to look for.

What it costs in Worthing

West Sussex sits in the South East, where rates run above the national average but below London. In 2026:

Type of care	Typical local cost
Hourly visiting care	£28–£38 per hour
Sleeping night	~£210 per night
Waking night	~£260 per night
Live-in care	£1,400–£1,700 per week
Residential care home (West Sussex)	£1,100–£1,600 per week

The Homecare Association's minimum sustainable price for England in 2026/27 is £34.42 an hour — what it calculates a provider needs in order to pay the National Living Wage, cover travel between calls and remain solvent. Treat a quote well below that with scepticism: the gap is being carried somewhere, usually in unpaid travel time or staff turnover.

Full breakdown in the 2026 home care cost page.

24-hour, overnight and live-in care in Worthing

When someone can no longer be left alone at night, after a fall, a hospital stay or as dementia progresses, care at home in Worthing can still cover the whole day and night. There are three ways to arrange it:

Sleeping nights, about £210 a night locally. A carer sleeps in the home and can be woken a couple of times. Suits someone who needs reassurance or occasional help to the toilet.
Waking nights, about £260 a night. The carer stays awake all night. Needed if your relative is up repeatedly, tries to go out, or needs turning or medication through the night.
Live-in care, about £1,400–£1,700 a week. One carer lives in, with a daily break and a sleeping night. It is often cheaper than daytime visits plus waking nights, and it is the main alternative to a care home.

Care that is genuinely awake around the clock needs two carers working shifts, so it costs considerably more than live-in care. Many Worthing agencies only offer daytime visits, so ask about nights and live-in work on the first call. If the main need is a health need rather than a social care need, NHS Continuing Healthcare can pay for all of it: ask for a checklist assessment before paying privately (check eligibility). Compare agencies offering live-in care in Worthing and overnight care in Worthing.

Help paying

Attendance Allowance — £76.70 or £114.60 a week, not means-tested, for anyone over State Pension age who needs help. Claim it regardless of savings.
West Sussex County Council — free needs assessment, then a financial assessment. Capital above £23,250 means self-funding; below £14,250 it's disregarded. For care at home, your property is not counted.
NHS Continuing Healthcare — 100% funded, no means test, where there's a primary health need.
Disabled Facilities Grant — up to £30,000 through Adur & Worthing Councils towards adaptations.

Full detail in the West Sussex home care funding page.

Areas and postcodes

Most Worthing agencies allocate carers by area, so coverage varies street by street. The main clusters:

Central Worthing, seafront and Broadwater — BN11
West Worthing and Tarring — BN11, BN14
Goring-by-Sea, including Goring Hall and the Strand — BN12
Durrington and Salvington — BN13
High Salvington, Findon and Findon Valley — BN13, BN14
Ferring, East Preston and Angmering — BN12, BN16

Just east? See the Adur home care page, covering Shoreham, Lancing, Sompting and Southwick.

Free and low-cost local support

Worth exhausting before paying for anything:

West Sussex County Council adult social care — free care needs assessments and carer's assessments
Age UK West Sussex — information, advice and befriending
Carers Support West Sussex — carer's assessments, groups, emergency planning. See our carer support directory
Alzheimer's Society and local memory cafés — listed in our dementia-friendly Worthing page
St Barnabas House — hospice at home, day services and bereavement support, all free
West Sussex Fire & Rescue — free Safe and Well home visits
Adur & Worthing Councils — community alarms and Disabled Facilities Grants

Frequently asked questions

Who provides home care in Worthing?

West Sussex County Council commissions care from contracted agencies and runs a free reablement service, alongside dozens of independent CQC-registered agencies across BN11–BN14. Whichever you consider, check their CQC registration and latest inspection report first.

How much is home care in Worthing?

Typically £28–£38 an hour in 2026 for managed agency care, above the £32 UK average. Live-in care runs £1,400–£1,700 a week. Evenings, weekends and bank holidays usually carry an uplift of 15–50%.

How do I find a good agency in Worthing?

Search the CQC website for registered providers covering your postcode, read the inspection reports in full — particularly the "well-led" and "responsive" sections — and ask each shortlisted agency how many different carers a typical client sees in a month. A vague answer to that question is itself an answer.

Can care be arranged quickly in Worthing?

Often within 24–48 hours for straightforward packages, and same-day in genuine emergencies such as a sudden hospital discharge or a family carer falling ill. See emergency respite care.

Is home care cheaper than a care home in West Sussex?

For lighter packages, considerably — a few visits a week costs a fraction of residential fees. The two converge as hours increase, and live-in care sits in a similar range to a good local care home. Our comparison page sets out the numbers.

The Care Panel is an independent publication. We are not a care provider and are not regulated by the Care Quality Commission, because we do not deliver care. Always check a provider's own CQC registration and inspection report before you commit.

Written and fact-checked by The Care Panel. Last updated September 2026. General information, not financial or medical advice.

Council support

West Sussex

West Sussex council assesses care needs free of charge regardless of savings, and may contribute when savings are below £23,250.

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Common questions about home care in Worthing

Which home care agencies cover Worthing?

There are 61 CQC-registered agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Worthing (register checked Nov 2026). Highly rated options include AcreCare Limited, SCC Agency Ltd (trading as South Coast Care) and Steps 2 Limited.

What CQC ratings do home care agencies in Worthing have?

Of the 46 that have been rated, 44 (96%) are rated Good or Outstanding, with 2 Outstanding; 2 are Requires improvement or Inadequate. Newly registered services often have no rating yet; 15 here are still unrated.

What should I look for when choosing agencies in Worthing?

Three questions matter most once you have read the latest CQC report: will the staff be consistent, what is the plan for missed visits, and what is the total cost before signing? On dates, 15 of the 61 listed had an inspection or rating within the last two years. Older reports: 31. A checklist to help.

How does Worthing compare with nearby towns for home care agencies?

Nearest towns we cover: Findon (3.1 miles): 46, 32 rated Good or Outstanding; Rustington (4.8 miles): 57, 44 rated Good or Outstanding; Steyning (5.3 miles): 58, 39 rated Good or Outstanding. Worthing itself has 61, 44 of them Good or Outstanding.

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Also covered by these agencies: Angmering, East Preston, Ferring, Lancing, Sompting.

Nearby postcodes

BN14 11
BN11 20
BN12 6

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