Home care in Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness: 47 registered home care agencies in 5 towns. Each town page sets out CQC ratings, inspection dates and specialisms side by side.
Get local care pricesWe list 47 home care agencies registered with CQC in Westmorland and Furness, spread over 5 towns; Askam in Furness, Barrow-in-Furness and Kendal have the most. 93% of the 28 with a CQC rating are Good or Outstanding (above 88% for England). Outstanding: 2.
41 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.
Westmorland and Furness 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: Westmorland and Furness.
Westmorland and Furness: ratings compared with England
Across the 28 rated home care agencies, CQC gives 2 Outstanding, 24 Good, 2 Requires improvement and 0 Inadequate. That makes 7% Outstanding, against 5% in England, and 7% below Good, against 12%.
In the last two years CQC has published ratings for 5 of them, 18% of the rated total (England: 24%). For 16, the latest rating is over four years old: 57% here, 54% in England.
Rating changes over 12 months in Westmorland and Furness: 0 up, 0 down and 1 first-time ratings, out of 4 new ratings published. The latest was Beacon Home Care Services Limited in Penrith, rated Good on 6 July 2026. All recent CQC ratings in Westmorland and Furness.
Home care agencies in Westmorland and Furness at a glance
The longest-registered of them is Housing 21 - Lonsdale Court, on the CQC register since 2010. 6 registered in the last 12 months and 6 of those have no rating yet.
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.
Some providers run more than one agency in Westmorland and Furness: Westmorland Homecare Limited (3), Alcedo Orange Limited (2) and Cartmel Care Limited (2).
Askam in Furness has more home care agencies than anywhere else in Westmorland and Furness, with 16; the largest are Askam in Furness (16), Barrow-in-Furness (15), Kendal (14), Penrith (9) and Ulverston (5). In Penrith, 67% of the 9 listed are rated Good or Outstanding, the highest share of any town here; Ulverston has the lowest at 20%.
Looking at what services here say they specialise in, caring for adults under 65 years comes first with 45, followed by caring for adults over 65 years (45), dementia (41) and physical disabilities (41).
41 of the 47 agencies (87%) list dementia among their specialisms, compared with 79% of home care agencies across England.
Where the home care agencies in Westmorland and Furness are
| Town | Home care agencies | Rated Good or Outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| Askam in Furness | 16 | 5 |
| Barrow-in-Furness | 15 | 8 |
| Kendal | 14 | 8 |
| Penrith | 9 | 6 |
| Ulverston | 5 | 1 |
Westmorland and Furness home care agencies, district by district
Provider details from the Care Quality Commission register, updated Oct 2026. Contains CQC data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is not a care provider.