Residential care home · Bolton

The Bungalow

54-56, Bolton BL4 0AB — 19 beds, run by SH Care Ltd.

19 beds Registered 7.9 years

Bolton Council pays between £0 and £0 a week for a standard residential place, and more where needs are higher. It publishes bands rather than a single rate.

Level of care	Council pays per week
Standard residential	£754
Standard nursing	£812
Dementia high needs supplement, added	£84
Residential with dementia supplement	£838
Nursing with dementia supplement	£896

Which band applies is decided by the council, not the home. A Care Act assessment sets the level of need, and that sets the band. If you are paying for yourself, the home may charge more than any of these figures — ask it directly.

Source: Bolton Council, Care home fees — standard fee rates for homes caring predominantly for older adults. The dementia supplement applies where a resident is assessed as needing specialist dementia care in a dedicated unit. The council does not state whether its nursing rate includes NHS-funded nursing care; we last checked it on 11 August 2026. Bolton does not state whether its nursing bands include NHS-funded nursing care, so treat the nursing figures with care and ask which basis a quote uses.

How the inspectors rated it

Good

The Care Quality Commission rated The Bungalow Good when it last published an assessment, in October 2019.

That was 6.8 years ago. Managers move on, owners sell up, staff turn over. A rating this old describes the home as it was in 2019 — not as it is this month. Three questions worth asking on the phone: who is the manager now, how long have they been in post, and how many of the care staff have been there more than a year?

Safe — Good Effective — Good Caring — Good Responsive — Good Well-led — Good

Read the full CQC report · what these ratings mean · register retrieved 4 August 2026

The paperwork, plainly

Beds registered: 19
Typical size in Bolton: 32 beds
Registered with the CQC: 7.9 years
Manager on the register: Cooke, Corrine
Who owns it: SH Care Ltd
Companies House: 11213538

Every line comes from the CQC register, not from the home. If something is wrong, tell us and we will check it against the register.

Other homes close by

Distances are straight-line from the registered address — useful for working out who could visit easily, which matters more than most things on this page.

Farnworth Care Home 0.7 miles · 120 beds Good Hollands Care Home 0.8 miles · 39 beds Good Meadow Bank House 1 miles · 47 beds Good Greenlands Residential Home 1 miles · 28 beds Good Wilfred Geere House 1.1 miles · 30 beds Good

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Published fees go stale within months. Tell us what care is needed and we will ask The Bungalow directly, then send you the reply. We are paid nothing if you move in, so we have no reason to push you here or anywhere else.

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Would the council pay towards this?

Whether you pay all of it, some of it or none of it turns on savings, income and whether a property would be left empty. Our calculator applies the 2026/27 means test and tells you the weekly figure. See also how council funding works and what happens when the money runs out.

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Where to get advice you can rely on

We publish prices and register data. We are not an advice service, and for the decisions that follow these are the sources worth your time — all free, none of them selling you anything.

Age UK — Paying for a care home The clearest free explanation of the means test, the 12-week property disregard and deferred payment agreements. Their factsheet 10 goes further than almost anything else published. GOV.UK — charging circular, 2026/27 The primary source for this year’s figures: capital limits held again at £23,250 and £14,250, and the personal expenses allowance uprated by 3.8%. NHS — paying for your own care Written for people who will not qualify for council help: whether a home has to be sold, what equity release really involves, and which benefits are not means-tested. MoneyHelper — ways to pay care home fees Government-backed and impartial. Also explains what a specialist care fees adviser does and when paying for one is worth it. Care Act 2014 — statutory guidance What councils are actually obliged to do. Annex A covers choice of accommodation and top-up payments, the part families are most often talked past. Care Quality Commission The regulator itself. Every rating here comes from its public register, and the full inspection report is always worth reading rather than the headline word alone.

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