Home care in Manchester
There are 420 home care agencies on the CQC register in Manchester, covering 2 towns. Open a town for ratings, specialisms and when each was inspected.
Get local care pricesManchester has 420 CQC-registered home care agencies across 2 towns on this site, with the most in Manchester and Wythenshawe. Among 242 rated so far, the Good or Outstanding share is 88%, which is in line with the 88% seen across England, with 13 rated Outstanding.
328 agencies name dementia among their specialisms. Most agencies cover a radius of several miles from their office, so the same agency can appear under more than one town.
Council-funded care here is arranged by Manchester Council, which must offer a free care needs assessment to anyone who appears to need support.
Council help with care: Manchester.
Quality of home care agencies in Manchester
5% of rated home care agencies in Manchester hold an Outstanding rating (13 of 242), where the England share is 5%. 201 more are Good. At the other end, 28 (12%) sit at Requires improvement (24) or Inadequate (4), compared with 12% nationally.
Older ratings are worth asking about: 133 home care agencies in Manchester (55%) were last rated over four years ago, against 54% nationally. 47 (19%) have a rating from within two years, against 24%.
Since October 2025, CQC has issued 6 ratings for home care agencies here. Of those, improvements numbered 0, downgrades 0 and first ratings 2. The latest was Apollo Care Central Manchester in Manchester, rated Good on 1 October 2026. The Manchester CQC ratings log.
Who provides care in Manchester
Biggest providers here, counted by services: Creative Support Limited (6), Midshires Care Limited (6) and Premier Care Limited (5).
Age Concern Home Care - South Manchester has been registered with CQC the longest, since 2010. Over the past year 28 new home care agencies joined the register here; 24 are still waiting for a first rating.
Visiting care around £32–£34 an hour and live-in care around £1,540–£1,610 a week, according to typical 2026 prices across England.
Looking at what services here say they specialise in, caring for adults over 65 years comes first with 382, followed by caring for adults under 65 years (375), physical disabilities (354) and dementia (328).
Most listings sit in a few places: Manchester (218) and Wythenshawe (148). Those are the towns in Manchester with the most home care agencies. In Wythenshawe, 53% of the 148 listed are rated Good or Outstanding, the highest share of any town here; Manchester has the lowest at 39%.
Dementia support is listed by 78% of agencies in Manchester (328 of 420); the England share is 79%.
Towns in Manchester
| Town | Home care agencies | With a top-two rating |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 218 | 85 |
| Wythenshawe | 148 | 78 |
Manchester home care agencies, district by district
CQC register data (Oct 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is independent of every provider listed.