Home care in Hartlepool
21 CQC-registered home care agencies across 1 town in Hartlepool. Pick a town to compare ratings, specialisms and inspection dates.
Get local care pricesAcross 1 town, this site lists 21 CQC-registered home care agencies in Hartlepool. CQC has rated 16 of them: 100% Good or Outstanding, above England's 88%.
15 agencies list dementia as a specialism. Because most agencies work across several miles around their base, you may see the same one listed in more than one town.
Hartlepool Council arranges council-funded care here. If someone seems to need care and support, it has to assess their needs, free of charge.
Council help with care: Hartlepool.
Size, specialisms and cost in Hartlepool
Some providers run more than one agency in Hartlepool: AAA Homecare Limited (2), Dale Care Limited (2) and Elite Home Care Service Limited (2).
The longest-registered of them is Care Link Northern Limited, on the CQC register since 2011. 2 registered in the last 12 months and 2 of those have no rating yet.
Budget guide for Hartlepool (typical 2026 prices across England): visiting care around £32–£34 an hour and live-in care around £1,540–£1,610 a week.
15 of the 21 agencies (71%) list dementia among their specialisms, compared with 79% of home care agencies across England.
Most common specialisms among the 21 home care agencies: caring for adults under 65 years (18), caring for adults over 65 years (18), mental health conditions (17) and physical disabilities (17).
CQC ratings across Hartlepool
Across the 16 rated home care agencies, CQC gives 0 Outstanding, 16 Good, 0 Requires improvement and 0 Inadequate. That makes 0% Outstanding, against 5% in England, and 0% below Good, against 12%.
In the last two years CQC has published ratings for 5 of them, 31% of the rated total (England: 24%). For 7, the latest rating is over four years old: 44% here, 54% in England.
Rating changes over 12 months in Hartlepool: 0 up, 0 down and 1 first-time ratings, out of 4 new ratings published. Pathways to Independance in Hartlepool has the newest rating: Good, from 12 October 2026. All recent CQC ratings in Hartlepool.
Where the home care agencies in Hartlepool are
| Town | Home care agencies | Rated Good or Outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| Hartlepool | 11 | 10 |
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CQC register data (Oct 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is independent of every provider listed.