Home Care in Sidcup
Sidcup has 9 CQC registered home care agencies. 2 are rated Good, 2 Requires improvement, and 5 have not yet been rated. 4 of the 9 were last inspected more than three years ago.
Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.
Sidcup at a glance
What the local numbers say about home care in Sidcup, to help you judge the options below.
- Hourly care visits, London: £22.88 to £30.05 an hour. Middle half of prices from 16 agencies.
- People aged 75 and over: 21,800. Rising to 24,400 by 2035, up 11%
- Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 2,900. Rising to 3,500 by 2035, up 18%
- People aged 85 and over: 6,400. Rising to 8,300 by 2035, up 29%
- Dementia diagnosis rate: 74%. The NHS ambition is 67%.
- Agencies in the borough, last 12 months: 2 opened, 3 closed. 67 registered today.
- Choice of agencies: 1052 within 10 miles. In a typical neighbourhood. The nearest is under a mile away (0.3 miles).
Powered by Orrery Intelligence. Market model built 22 October 2026 (ONS 2022 based population projections, CQC register), published care home prices, council planning records.
Planning and Paying for Home Care in Sidcup
Support at home is usually bought gradually, beginning with a single morning call and growing as needs do. Because it builds that way, families often work out the funding rules only once several hours a week are already in place. A care needs assessment brings some order to that, and it is free, open to anyone who appears to need support, and independent of what anyone can afford.
Getting a Care Needs Assessment
The London Borough of Bexley is the authority responsible for carrying out that assessment and for arranging funded support where a person is eligible. An assessor looks at washing, dressing, medicines, meals, mobility and risk, then sets out how much support would meet those needs and how often it should come. Where a relative is already providing care, they can ask for an assessment of their own needs alongside it, which is worth doing before things reach breaking point. The written outcome makes every later conversation with an agency far more precise.
What Home Care Costs and Who Pays
Agencies charge by the hour or by the visit, and rates rise for evenings, weekends and bank holidays. A financial assessment decides whether the council contributes, taking savings and income into account, and support at home is treated differently from residential care in that the value of the person's own house is disregarded. Some families take a direct payment and arrange the care themselves, which brings flexibility along with the work of managing it. Whichever route you take, ask for the rate in writing and check the minimum visit length before agreeing anything.
Choosing a Home Care Agency in Sidcup and What to Check
What the Ratings Show and Where They Stop
TLC Home Care Solutions Ltd holds a Good rating, awarded on findings about safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness and leadership. The agency trading as YourLife in Sidcup and Unique Personnel carry Requires Improvement ratings, and in each case the report names what inspectors found, so ask directly what has changed since. Six agencies, among them Wisdom Support Services Ltd, Reflection of Care Ltd and Safe Path Care Ltd, have not yet been rated. Where there is no published verdict, judge an agency on how precisely it answers questions about staffing, training and supervision.
Questions That Separate Good Agencies From Poor Ones
Ask how many different carers would come over a typical fortnight, because continuity is what people notice most and what agencies find hardest to promise. Ask what happens when a carer is ill, how late a visit can run before you are told, and whether times are fixed or given as a window. Ask who supervises the carers, how often a manager visits the house, and how a complaint is handled once made. Ask too how visits are recorded and whether the family can see those records, since that is often the only reliable window into what actually happens between visits. Ask finally how long the manager has been in post, because a settled office usually means settled rotas.
9 home care in Sidcup
- TLC Home Care Solutions · 24 Wellington Parade, Sidcup, Bexley, DA15 9NB
Home care · CQC Good · Run by TLC Home Care Solutions Ltd
TLC Home Care Solutions is a home care agency based in Sidcup, supporting people across the London borough of Bexley. We visit people at home, which is where most people would much rather be, and we build the support around the house and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment - YourLife · Sydney Court, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 4EF
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Yourlife Management Services Limited
At YourLife Sidcup, we provide home care support to people living in Sidcup and the wider Bexley area, helping individuals remain in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes for as long as they wish. We work with a broad range of...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Safe Path Care · 4 Langdon Shaw, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 6AU
Home care · Run by Safe Path Care Ltd
Safe Path Care provides support in people's own homes in Sidcup and across Bexley. Our work is to give people enough help to carry on living in their own houses, delivered by carers they know and at the times they have agreed. We visit...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - First Option Support · 4 Calvert Close, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 5JL
Home care · CQC Good · Run by First Option Support Ltd
First Option Support provides home care to people in Sidcup and across Bexley. We support older people, people living with dementia, people managing mental health conditions, people with a physical disability, people with a visual or...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Unique Personnel (UK) · 258a, Sidcup, Bexley, DA15 8PW
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Unique Personnel (U.K.) Limited
Unique Personnel provides care to older people and younger adults in their own homes across Sidcup and the surrounding parts of Bexley. Visits cover personal care, support with medication, meals and drinks, help around the house and with...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults - Wisdom Support Services · River House, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 5RH
Home care · Run by Wisdom Support Limited
We provide care at home in Sidcup and across Bexley. Those we support include older adults, people living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults, people managing mental health conditions, people with physical...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse - Sendtivate CIC · The Manor House Annex, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 6BW
Home care · Run by Sendtivate CIC
Sendtivate CIC is a home care agency supporting adults in Sidcup and the surrounding part of Bexley, in their own homes. We visit older people who need help to keep living at home, adults living with dementia, people living with mental...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults - Reflection of Care · Flat 18, Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 6PE
Home care · Run by Reflection of Care Ltd
We are Reflection of Care, based in Sidcup, and we provide care in people's own homes across Bexley and nearby. We support older people and younger adults, and our purpose is the same in both cases: enough of the right help, at the right...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults - Community Careline Services · First Floor 265 Westwood Lane, Sidcup, Bexley, DA15 9PS
Home care · Run by Greenwich & Bexley Community Care Limited
Community Careline in Bexley provides support at home to adults in Sidcup and across the borough. We visit older people who need help to carry on living in their own houses, adults living with dementia, people living with mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
What home care costs
| Type of care | What it costs |
|---|---|
| Hourly care visits, London Middle half of prices from 16 agencies. Median £24.48. Shown for London because too few Bexley agencies publish a rate. | £22.88 to £30.05 an hour |
| What Bexley pays Average hourly rate, October 2026. | £23.88 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
- First Option Support Ltd, 8 September 2026, Good
- Unique Personnel (UK) Limited, 11 May 2023, Requires improvement
- YourLife (Sidcup), 31 August 2022, Requires improvement
Longest since a report
- Wisdom Support Services Ltd, 15 May 2018, Not yet rated
- TLC Home Care Solutions Ltd, 26 July 2019, Good
- YourLife (Sidcup), 31 August 2022, Requires improvement
Frequently asked questions about home care in Sidcup
How many home care agencies are there in Sidcup?
Sidcup has 9 CQC registered home care agencies: 2 Good, 2 Requires improvement, 5 not yet rated. Counts come from the CQC register and are kept up to date as ratings change.
How much does home care cost in Sidcup?
Hourly care visits, London: £22.88 to £30.05 an hour. Middle half of prices from 16 agencies. Median £24.48. Shown for London because too few Bexley 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 Sidcup were inspected most recently?
First Option Support Ltd (8 September 2026), Unique Personnel (UK) Limited (11 May 2023) and YourLife (Sidcup) (31 August 2022) have the most recent CQC reports.