Independent · CQC-checked · no commission
Compare what your council pays with what families are quoted, and browse every CQC-registered care home in 50 areas of England.
✓ Every home on the CQC register, not just paying ones ✓ No commission when you choose
The hardest thing to find out is the one that matters most: what it will cost you. Homes rarely publish fees, and the price a council pays is not the price a family is quoted for the same room.
Where a council publishes its own rate, you will see it on every home in that area with its date and source — 10 of the 50 areas we cover so far, with the rest requested under the Freedom of Information Act. Where we do not have a figure we can stand behind, the page says so rather than guessing. How we source our numbers.
Care homes display their CQC rating proudly, and rightly so. What the badge never tells you is when it was earned. Across England the middle home’s rating is 4.2 years old — and 2,994 homes are working from a judgement made more than three years ago.
Most care directories are paid when you move in. That commission is worth thousands, and it is paid by the home — which means the list you are shown is not neutral, and the homes that refuse to pay are simply missing from it.
Care is arranged council by council, and so are the rates. These are the largest markets in England — or search above for anywhere else.
Six questions and the current means test: the £23,250 threshold, tariff income, the 12-week property disregard and NHS-funded nursing care. It tells you what you would pay each week and what the council should cover. No sign-up, nothing sent anywhere.
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