Home care in Solihull
137 CQC-registered home care agencies across 5 towns in Solihull. Pick a town to compare ratings, specialisms and inspection dates.
Get local care pricesAcross 5 towns, this site lists 137 CQC-registered home care agencies in Solihull. Solihull, Knowle and Bentley Heath have the largest numbers. CQC has rated 94 of them: 82% Good or Outstanding, below England's 88%, and 3 are Outstanding.
For dementia, 112 agencies list it as a specialism. An agency usually travels several miles from its office, which is why one agency can show up under several towns.
Solihull 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: Solihull.
CQC ratings across Solihull
Across the 94 rated home care agencies, CQC gives 3 Outstanding, 74 Good, 17 Requires improvement and 0 Inadequate. That makes 3% Outstanding, against 5% in England, and 18% below Good, against 12%.
In the last two years CQC has published ratings for 20 of them, 21% of the rated total (England: 24%). For 57, the latest rating is over four years old: 61% here, 54% in England.
Rating changes over 12 months in Solihull: 0 up, 0 down and 1 first-time ratings, out of 6 new ratings published. Care Services in Solihull has the newest rating: Good, from 14 September 2026. The Solihull CQC ratings log.
Size, specialisms and cost in Solihull
Most listings sit in a few places: Solihull (113), Knowle (50), Bentley Heath (49), Dorridge (39) and Balsall Common (30). Those are the towns in Solihull with the most home care agencies. The strongest ratings are in Dorridge (74% Good or Outstanding out of 39) and the weakest in Solihull (52%).
The longest-registered of them is Care 4U Services (Midlands) Ltd, on the CQC register since 2010. 7 registered in the last 12 months and 7 of those have no rating yet.
112 of the 137 agencies (82%) list dementia among their specialisms, compared with 79% of home care agencies across England.
The specialisms home care agencies in Solihull list most often are physical disabilities (123), caring for adults under 65 years (121), caring for adults over 65 years (120) and dementia (112).
What does care cost here? Typical 2026 prices across England are visiting care around £32–£34 an hour and live-in care around £1,540–£1,610 a week.
Some providers run more than one agency in Solihull: Advance Health Care UK Ltd (3), Alina Homecare Services Limited (2) and GreenSquareAccord Limited (2).
Towns in Solihull
| Town | Home care agencies | With a top-two rating |
|---|---|---|
| Solihull | 113 | 59 |
| Knowle | 50 | 33 |
| Bentley Heath | 49 | 33 |
| Dorridge | 39 | 29 |
| Balsall Common | 30 | 21 |
Postcode districts in Solihull
CQC register data (Oct 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is independent of every provider listed.