Home Care in Ilkley
Ilkley has 10 CQC registered home care agencies. 9 are rated Good, 1 Inadequate. 7 of the 10 were last inspected more than three years ago.
Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.
Ilkley at a glance
What the local numbers say about home care in Ilkley, to help you judge the options below.
- Hourly care visits, Yorkshire and The Humber: £24.99 to £36.00 an hour. Middle half of prices from 5 agencies.
- People aged 75 and over: 42,700. Rising to 51,200 by 2035, up 20%
- Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 5,700. Rising to 7,000 by 2035, up 23%
- People aged 85 and over: 11,700. Rising to 16,100 by 2035, up 38%
- Dementia diagnosis rate: 75%. The NHS ambition is 67%.
- Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 6 opened, 3 closed. 102 registered today.
- Choice of agencies: 239 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is under a mile away (0.5 miles).
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Planning and Paying for Care at Home in Ilkley
Charges for help at home follow the hours booked rather than arriving as a single weekly figure, which keeps a package flexible but makes the running total harder to predict at the outset. Establishing which funding route applies early makes everything that follows considerably easier to manage.
Asking for a care needs assessment
Any adult who appears to need care and support can request a care needs assessment, and a relative providing care can ask for a separate carer's assessment in their own right. Both are arranged through Bradford Metropolitan District Council adult social care, the authority responsible for assessing need and for arranging funded support where a person qualifies. The assessment records how someone manages washing, dressing, meals, medication and moving about, and it produces a written statement of need rather than a recommendation of any particular agency.
Who pays, and how much
Where eligible needs are identified, a financial assessment considers income and capital. Savings above the upper threshold mean the care is funded privately; below it, the authority contributes and the person pays an assessed share. Some households take a direct payment instead and arrange support themselves, which gives more say over who visits and at what time.
Reading a schedule of charges
Ask each agency for its charges in writing and check what a quoted rate actually includes. Travel time between calls, mileage, visits needing two carers, and short notice cancellations are treated differently from one agency to another. Rates across Ilkley vary, and evening, weekend and bank holiday visits generally cost more. Ask about the minimum visit length as well, because a short call may not leave enough time for everything that has been agreed.
Choosing a Home Care Agency in Ilkley and What to Check
With nine of ten agencies rated Good, the published judgements do very little sorting. What matters instead is capacity, consistency of staff, and how an agency behaves when something goes wrong.
What a registered agency provides
Every provider listed is registered to deliver personal care in someone's own home: help with washing, dressing, moving about, meals and medication, along with company and a regular check that all is well. Clinical work requiring a qualified nurse, such as complex wound care, falls outside that registration and is arranged separately through health services. Raise needs of that kind at the first conversation.
Reading the reports when the ratings match
Open the full report for each agency on your shortlist. Each inspection answers five questions about whether a service is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led, and two agencies both rated Good can look quite different once those five are compared. Where an agency has been told it requires improvement, the report sets out exactly what inspectors found and when, so ask what has changed since. Check the date in every case.
Questions that separate one agency from another
Ask how many different carers are likely to visit in a typical week, because continuity is what households notice most. Ask what happens when a regular carer is unwell, how you will be told if a visit is running late, and who answers the telephone out of hours. Check how medication support is recorded and how the care plan is reviewed as needs change. Agencies such as Home Instead, Dignicare and Carers and Companions Ltd appear on this page, and their answers will be more revealing than any listing.
10 home care in Ilkley
- Your Life · Scholars Place, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 8UW
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Yourlife Management Services Limited
We at Your Life (Ilkley) are proud to provide trusted home care across the welcoming spa town of Ilkley, offering compassionate support that allows people to remain comfortably and confidently in the place they know best: their own home....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Home Instead · The Point, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 8FL
Home care · CQC Good · Run by BCT Care Services Ltd
We at Home Instead are proud to provide compassionate home care across Ilkley and the surrounding communities of Bradford, supporting older people and adults of all ages to live safely and comfortably in the place they know best: their own...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Body&Soul Assistance, Admin. · 58 Storiths Court, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 0NZ
Home care · CQC Inadequate · Run by Body & Soul Assistance Limited
Body and Soul Assistance provides care and support to people in their own homes in Ilkley and the surrounding parts of Bradford, including people living with dementia and people with physical disabilities. Our most recent overall rating...
Specialisms: Dementia Care, Physical Disability - Abbeyfield Grove House - DCA · 12 Riddings Road, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 9BF
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Abbeyfield The Dales Limited
We provide care at home in Ilkley and the surrounding area, supporting older people, including those living with dementia, people with physical disabilities and people with loss of sight or hearing. Much of our work is with people living...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment - Ladies In Waiting · 10 Skipton Road, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 9EJ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Crabtree Care Homes Services Limited
Ladies In Waiting provides home care in Ilkley and the surrounding area, supporting older people in their own homes. We do one thing and we would rather do it properly than spread ourselves thin. For almost everybody we visit, the whole...
Specialisms: Older Person Care - Right at Home, Keighley & Skipton · Suite 2, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 8JZ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by K&P Home Care Ltd
We at Right at Home Ilkley, Keighley & Skipton are proud to provide compassionate home care across Ilkley and the surrounding communities of Bradford, supporting older people and adults of all ages to live well in the place they know best:...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Abbeyfield - The Beeches · The Beeches, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 6JQ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Abbeyfield The Dales Limited
The Beeches, part of Abbeyfield, provides care and support to older people in their own homes in Ilkley and the surrounding parts of Bradford. Most people would far rather stay where they are than move, and our work is to make that a safe...
Specialisms: Older Person Care - Audley Care - Audley Care Clevedon · The Headmasters Cottage Clevedon, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 8AQ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Audley Care Ltd
Audley Care supports people in their own homes in and around Ilkley. We work with older people and younger adults, with people living with dementia, with people who have physical disabilities, and with people living with sight or hearing...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Carers and Companions · Upper Floor, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 9DY
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Carers and Companions Limited
We are Carers and Companions, and we support adults in their own homes in Ilkley and the surrounding parts of West Yorkshire. Both halves of our name matter, because good care at home is as much about the relationship as it is about the...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Dignicare · 10 Drill Hall Business Centre, Ilkley, Bradford, LS29 8EZ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Dignicare Limited
Dignicare is a home care agency in Ilkley. We support people in their own homes across the area. Home care sounds simple and is not. It means going into somebody's house, where they set the rules, and helping with the most personal parts...
What home care costs
| Type of care | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Hourly care visits, Yorkshire and The Humber Middle half of prices from 5 agencies. Median £28.99. Shown for Yorkshire and The Humber because too few Bradford agencies publish a rate. | £24.99 to £36.00 an hour |
| What Bradford pays Average hourly rate, October 2026. | £25.28 an hour |
| Homecare Association minimum price 2026 to 2027. The Association's estimate of the lowest price that covers the cost of delivering care. It is not a legal minimum. | £34.42 an hour |
| Live in care, England Middle half of prices from 62 agencies. Median £1,455. | £1,250 to £1,668 a week |
Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price. Powered by Orrery Intelligence.
Inspected most recently
- Body&Soul Assistance, Admin., 26 August 2026, Inadequate
- Ladies In Waiting, 3 March 2025, Good
- Carers and Companions Ltd, 2 February 2024, Good
Longest since a report
- Abbeyfield Grove House - DCA, 4 August 2018, Good
- Audley Care Ltd - Audley Care Clevedon, 28 March 2019, Good
- Home Instead, 6 September 2019, Good
Frequently asked questions about home care in Ilkley
How many home care agencies are there in Ilkley?
Ilkley has 10 CQC registered home care agencies: 9 Good, 1 Inadequate. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.
How much does home care cost in Ilkley?
Hourly care visits, Yorkshire and The Humber: £24.99 to £36.00 an hour. Middle half of prices from 5 agencies. Median £28.99. Shown for Yorkshire and The Humber because too few Bradford agencies publish a rate. Published prices come from agencies that publish rates, so treat them as a guide. Ask the agency for its own price.
Which home care agencies in Ilkley were inspected most recently?
Body&Soul Assistance, Admin. (26 August 2026), Ladies In Waiting (3 March 2025) and Carers and Companions Ltd (2 February 2024) have the most recent CQC reports.