Home care · Tameside
24-hour care in Hattersley
24-hour care means someone is on hand at any hour. At home it is usually arranged as live-in care, with one carer living in, or as daytime visits plus waking nights; when help is needed all night as well as all day, two carers share the hours. 130 agencies registered with CQC cover Hattersley. Check with each one that it provides this kind of care.
Updated 27 October 2026 (CQC register) · Prices: Usual 2026 prices across England
Key points
- Agencies that have an office within 7 miles of Hattersley: 130, with 70 rated Good or Outstanding.
- Tameside council has to offer a care needs assessment free of charge.
- Ask each agency about 24-hour care; the CQC register has no record of who provides it.
- Typical prices here: live-in care around £1,540–£1,610 a week. Live-in care is usually the cheapest way to cover day and night.
Citation: "24-hour care in Hattersley", The Care Panel analysis of CQC register data, Oct 2026.
Live-in care or waking nights?
Live-in care is usually the most affordable way to have someone there day and night: one carer lives in, but needs about two hours off each day and an unbroken night's sleep. Waking nights put a carer in the home who stays awake all night; combined with daytime visits, that covers all 24 hours. If help is needed most nights, one live-in carer is not enough: add waking nights or a second carer.
Typical local prices: live-in care around £1,540–£1,610 a week; a residential care home £1,205 a week.
When 24-hour care is needed
Families usually look for it after a hospital stay, when dementia means someone cannot be left alone or wanders at night, after repeated falls, or at the end of life. A care home is the alternative to compare: for one person it often costs less than staffing every hour at home, but many people want to stay in their own home.
Help paying for 24-hour care
Tameside council must offer a free care needs assessment; if it finds eligible needs by day and night, care at home can be part of a council care plan, and the value of the home is not counted for care at home. Attendance Allowance pays its higher rate of £114.60 a week to people over State Pension age who need help both day and night, whatever their savings. When the main need is a health need, NHS Continuing Healthcare may pay in full. How to ask Tameside council for an assessment.
What the register shows for Hattersley
Clarity Homecare Oldham is the most recently registered, joining the CQC register in October 2026. Compare Hattersley's 88% Good or Outstanding with 88% for the rated agencies among the 333 we list in Tameside. Ranked against the 6 closest towns on our site by the share of every listed agency that is rated Good or Outstanding, Hattersley comes 2nd of 7 (54%), with Hadfield top at 55%. Cheshire Quality Care Ltd has the oldest rating still in force, from June 2018. Dementia appears on 98 of 130 registrations here (75%), compared with 78% in Tameside as a whole. On their CQC registrations, 107 of 130 list physical disabilities, 75 of 130 list learning disabilities and 79 of 130 list mental health conditions.
What 24-hour care costs in Hattersley
| Visiting care | around £32–£34 an hour |
|---|---|
| Live-in care | around £1,540–£1,610 a week |
What the council pays (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council): £24.40 an hour for home care (2025/26 average paid to agencies); £808.64 a week for residential care (2025/26 average, over-65s); £1,057.67 a week for nursing care (2025/26 average, over-65s) (source).
Ask every agency for a full list of charges, with weekend and bank holiday rates: hourly rates vary more between agencies than between regions. For 2026/27, the Homecare Association says council-funded home care in England is only sustainable at £34.42 an hour or more. Source: Lottie Care Index, Q3 2026. Estimate the weekly cost or see what you might pay
Home care agencies serving Hattersley
Check with each agency that it offers 24-hour care. Order: CQC rating, then how recent, then distance.
Central Reablement Service & Home Pathway
Est. £32–£39/hr
Care Quality Services Oldham
Est. £30–£37/hr
Cera Stockport
Est. £30–£37/hr
Caremark (Oldham)
Est. £30–£37/hr
Safe Hands Care & Support Services
Est. £30–£37/hr
Tender Hands Homecare Ltd
Est. £30–£37/hr
P and S Care Limited
Est. £30–£37/hr
Complete Care and Enablement Services
Est. £30–£37/hr
Comprehensive Care Ltd
Est. £30–£37/hr
Blue Tree Care Limited
Est. £30–£37/hr
Helping Hands Stalybridge
Est. £29–£35/hr
Tameside Learning Disability Service
Est. £30–£37/hr
St Christopher's Trust
Est. £30–£37/hr
Shabach Health Care Ltd Tameside
Est. £30–£37/hr
Excel Care Group
Est. £30–£37/hr
Appleford Homes
Est. £30–£37/hr
Home Instead Stockport and Tameside
Est. £33–£40/hr
BoJo Care Services Ltd
Est. £30–£37/hr
Right at Home Stockport & Didsbury
Est. £30–£37/hr
Age Concern Home Care North Manchester
Est. £30–£37/hr
Questions about 24-hour care in Hattersley
Which home care agencies offer 24-hour care in Hattersley?
CQC does not record which agencies provide 24-hour care. 130 CQC-registered home care agencies have an office within 7 miles of Hattersley; 70 are rated Good or Outstanding. Ask each whether it provides 24-hour care.
How much does 24-hour care cost in Hattersley?
Usual 2026 prices across England: live-in care typically costs around £1,540–£1,610 a week. Covering every hour with separate day and night carers costs much more, because each hour is paid.
Is 24-hour care the same as live-in care?
Not quite. A live-in carer is there day and night but needs a daily break and a full night's sleep. If help is needed through the night most nights, true 24-hour care means adding waking nights or a second carer.
Can the council pay for 24-hour care at home?
It can, if Tameside council's care needs assessment finds eligible needs by day and night and care at home is a suitable way to meet them. A financial assessment follows; for care at home the home is not counted. NHS Continuing Healthcare pays in full when the main need is a health need.
How are agencies covering Hattersley rated?
Of 80 agencies with a CQC rating, 70 (88%) are Good or Outstanding. Dementia is a specialism for 98, and 12 have a rating or inspection from the past two years.
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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.