Can Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council pay for home care?

It may, following a financial assessment of income, savings and capital. Importantly, for support delivered in a person's own home the value of that property is not taken into account, so more households qualify for help than expect to. Any contribution follows the care needs assessment, so that comes first. Where the council agrees a personal budget it can often be taken as a direct payment, allowing a family to choose their own agency.

How do we arrange a care needs assessment in Tameside?

Contact Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and ask for an adult social care needs assessment. It is free and does not depend on income or savings, and anyone who appears to need support qualifies. An assessor will discuss daily routines, mobility, medication, nutrition and the risks someone faces at home, then record a care and support plan. A family member already providing care can request a separate carer assessment alongside it.

How early should we start arranging home care?

Before it becomes urgent, ideally. Introducing an hour or two each week while someone is still coping allows a relationship to form and makes it far easier to increase support later without it feeling like a loss of independence. Families who wait until after a fall or a hospital admission usually find the choice reduced to whichever agency has capacity that week. Starting small and early tends to be accepted far more readily than a large package imposed suddenly.

Which home care agencies work in Tameside?

Thirty one agencies registered to deliver care in people's own homes across Tameside are listed on this page. They include Comfort Call Tameside, Creative Support, Routes Healthcare Tameside, Extrahand Care Services Ltd and Shabach Health Care Ltd Tameside, alongside a number of newer providers. Each entry opens into a profile showing the current Care Quality Commission rating where one has been published and the inspection report behind it. Comparing those profiles is the quickest way to shortlist agencies worth contacting.

What should we ask an agency before agreeing a package?

Ask how many different carers would attend over a fortnight and what happens when a regular carer is unavailable. Ask what the minimum visit length is, how punctuality is monitored and when the office would contact you about a late call. Ask how care notes are recorded and whether relatives can see them. Then ask about the hourly rate, weekend and bank holiday charges and how much notice is needed to change visits.

How does home care compare with a care home or a nursing home?

Home care brings support to a person where they already live, in scheduled visits, leaving the rest of the day their own. A care home provides accommodation, meals and personal support with staff on hand at all hours, which suits someone no longer safe alone between visits. A nursing home does everything a care home does and additionally has registered nurses on site for clinical needs such as complex wound care. The care needs assessment is the right place to work out which of the three fits, and many households begin with home care and consider a move only much later.

Home Care in Tameside

Tameside has 31 CQC registered home care agencies. 13 are rated Good, 1 Outstanding, 3 Requires improvement, and 14 have not yet been rated. 14 of the 31 were last inspected more than three years ago.

Source: Care Quality Commission register, kept up to date as ratings change.

Tameside at a glance

What the numbers say about home care in Tameside.

Hourly care visits, North West: £25.00 to £28.90 an hour. Middle half of prices from 9 agencies.
People aged 75 and over: 20,500. Rising to 22,500 by 2035, up 10%
Living with dementia, aged 65 and over (estimate): 2,600. Rising to 3,100 by 2035, up 19%
People aged 85 and over: 4,800. Rising to 6,800 by 2035, up 41%
Dementia diagnosis rate: 72%. The NHS ambition is 67%.
Agencies in Tameside, last 12 months: 2 opened, 1 closed

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 care at home in Tameside

The assessment that opens the door

Support at home usually starts with an assessment of need, which is free, open to anyone who appears to require help and unaffected by savings. An assessor looks at washing and dressing, mobility, medication, meals, continence and the risks someone faces alone at home, then sets out the findings in a care and support plan. Request one through Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council adult social care, which is responsible for assessments and for agreeing any funded support that follows. A relative already providing unpaid care can ask for a carer assessment of their own at the same time.

Why home care is often more affordable than expected

A financial assessment considers income, savings and capital, but for support delivered in someone's own home the value of that home is not counted. That single difference means a good many households qualify for help towards home care who would be expected to pay in full for a residential placement. Where the council agrees a personal budget it can often be taken as a direct payment, which lets a family choose and manage the agency themselves rather than accept an allocated one.

The questions to ask about charges

Ask what the hourly rate is, whether weekends and bank holidays are charged differently and what the minimum visit length is, since very short calls rarely deliver what they promise. Ask how much notice is needed to change or cancel visits and whether anything is charged for a cancelled call. Ask how travel between visits is handled, because that affects whether carers arrive with time to spare or in a rush.

Choosing a provider in Tameside and what to check

Making sense of a partly rated list

One agency here, Esteem Care Manchester Ltd, holds an Outstanding judgement and thirteen more are rated Good, with three at Requires Improvement and fourteen not yet rated. An absent rating is common in home care, where new agencies register regularly, and it is not in itself a warning. It does mean there is no published report to lean on, so ask for references, ask how long the agency has operated locally and ask to speak to the registered manager rather than an office coordinator.

Continuity decides whether a package works

The single most important question is how many different carers would attend in a typical fortnight. A small, consistent group builds familiarity, notices changes early and spares an older person from explaining their routine again each week. Ask what happens when a regular carer is on leave, how punctuality is monitored and at what point the office rings a family about a late call.

Records, reviews and raising concerns

Ask how care notes are kept and whether relatives can read them. Ask how often the package is reviewed and who leads that review. Ask how a complaint is handled and how quickly. Agencies such as Careline Homecare, Direct Care, Helping Hands Stalybridge and Excel Care Group will each answer these differently, and the answers matter more than any brochure.

31 home care in Tameside

Careline Homecare · Poppy House, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside, OL6 8SS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Care Line Homecare Limited
We provide care at home in Ashton under Lyne and across Tameside. The people we support include older people and younger adults, people living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities, autistic people, people with mental health...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Comfort Call · First Floor, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL6 8SS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Comfort Call Limited
We at Comfort Call Tameside are a trusted home care agency supporting people across Ashton-under-Lyne and the wider Tameside borough, delivering compassionate care in the one place that matters most: your own home. Based in the OL postcode...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Comfort Call - Oldham · Top Floor, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside, OL6 8SS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Comfort Call Limited
We are Comfort Call, a home care agency working from Ashton Under Lyne and supporting adults across Oldham and Tameside. We visit people at home so they can stay where they want to be. We support older people and people living with...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Creative Support - Extra Care Services · Room B, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL7 0BA
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Creative Support Limited
We at Creative Support Tameside Extra Care offer compassionate home care across Ashton under Lyne, supporting people to live well and independently in the community they know and love. As a trusted home care provider in Tameside, we bring...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment
Link Care Solutions · Unit 5, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL7 0NT
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Link Care Solutions Limited
At Link Care Solutions, we provide home care support to people living in Ashton under Lyne and across the wider Tameside area. We work with a broad range of individuals, including older adults, younger adults, people living with dementia,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders
PBT Safer Care (Branch Location) · 168, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL6 6AB
Home care · Run by PBT Safer Care Ltd
We at PBT Safer Care are proud to provide compassionate home care across Ashton under lyne and the wider Tameside area, bringing professional support directly into the places where people feel most comfortable: their own homes. Operating...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults
Smartway Health and Social Care · 14 Warrington Street, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL6 6AS
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Smartway Health and Social Care Limited
Smartway Health and Social Care provides care and support in people's own homes across Ashton under Lyne and the surrounding area. We work with older adults, younger adults, people living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
SureCare & Oldham · 1.04 Clarence Arcade, Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, OL6 7PT
Home care · Run by Aum Krupa Ltd
We are SureCare Tameside and Oldham, a home care agency based in Ashton under Lyne. We visit adults in their own homes so that they can carry on living where they want to be. We support older people and people living with dementia, adults...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Learning Disability Service · Dukinfield Town Hall, Dukinfield, Tameside, SK16 4LA
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Tameside Learning Disability supports adults with a learning disability and autistic adults in their own homes in Dukinfield and across Tameside. Our purpose is to help people live the life they choose, in their own place, with the amount...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Younger Adults
365Medicare · Hyde Park House, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 4EH
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Fanco Ltd
365Medicare Tameside provides care at home for people in Hyde and across Tameside. We support people in the place they know best, with as much or as little help as they need, from a single call each morning through to several visits a day....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Complex Care Professionals · Orient House, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 4RY
Home care · Run by Complex Care Professionals Limited
Complex Care Professionals Tameside provides care and support to people in their own homes in Hyde and the surrounding area. We work with older people and with younger adults, and our experience covers dementia and physical disabilities....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Direct Care · 8 Commercial Brow, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 2JW
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Direct Care (Tameside) Ltd
We at Direct Care (Tameside) are proud to provide compassionate home care across Hyde and the wider Tameside area, supporting older people and adults with a wide range of needs to live well in the place they know best: their own home....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment
Esteem Care Manchester · Tameside Hyde Business Enterprise Centre, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 1AB
Home care · CQC Outstanding · Run by Esteem Care Manchester Ltd
We at Esteem Care Manchester are proud to provide compassionate home care across Hyde and the wider Tameside community, supporting people to live safely and independently in the place they know and love best: their own home. As a home care...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Extrahand Care Services · Suit 15, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 4RY
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Extrahand Care Services Ltd
Here at Extrahand Care, we provide home care support to people living in Hyde, Tameside and the surrounding areas. Our work centres on helping individuals remain in their own homes, maintaining their independence and continuing to live...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Helping Hands Stalybridge · Hyde Park House, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 4EH
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Midshires Care Limited
Helping Hands Stalybridge provides care and support to people in their own homes in Hyde, Stalybridge and across Tameside. We work with older people, younger adults, people living with dementia, adults with learning disabilities, autistic...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Supported Housing Service · Maple House, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 5QS
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Waythrough
Our supported housing team in Tameside works with younger adults living with mental ill health, providing support to people in their own homes in Hyde and the surrounding area. Supported housing works because the home belongs to the...
Specialisms: Mental Health, Younger Adults
The Goodway Care Group · Unit 2, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 1NJ
Home care · Run by The Goodway Care Group Limited
We provide care at home in Hyde and the surrounding part of Tameside, supporting older people and younger adults, including people living with dementia, people with physical disabilities, people with visual or hearing impairments and...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders
Caleendus · 1 Ashdale Crescent, Manchester, Tameside, M43 6PN
Home care · Run by Caleendus Limited
Caleendus provides care at home for people living in Manchester and across Tameside. We support people in the houses and flats they already know, and we work on the basis that our job is to fit around a life rather than to reorganise it....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults, Eating Disorders
Care in Our Hearts · 93 Market Street, Manchester, Tameside, M43 6DD
Home care · Run by Care in Our Hearts Ltd
We at Care in Our Hearts are proud to provide compassionate home care across Manchester and the wider Tameside area, supporting older people and younger adults to live well within the place they know best, their own home. Operating...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Deglo Care · 12 Edge Lane, Manchester, Tameside, M43 6NY
Home care · Run by Deglo Care Ltd
At Deglo Care, we are a home care agency based in Manchester, Tameside, and we exist to support people in living their lives as independently and comfortably as possible within their own homes. We work with a wide range of people,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Excel Care Group · 274 Manchester Road, Manchester, Tameside, M34 5GL
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Excel Care Group Ltd
We at Excel Care Group are proud to offer trusted home care across Manchester and the wider Tameside area, supporting individuals to live safely and comfortably in the place they know best: their own home. Our team provides compassionate,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Head Office · Optima House, Manchester, Tameside, M34 3PR
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Optima Health and Social Care Ltd
We provide care in people's own homes across Manchester and Tameside. We support adults with a learning disability and autistic adults, people living with mental health conditions, people with a physical disability or a visual or hearing...
Specialisms: Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Younger Adults
Homecarers · Building 2 Office 20 The Forum, Manchester, Tameside, M34 3QS
Home care · Run by Homecarers Care Services Limited
We provide care at home across Manchester and Tameside, supporting older people and younger adults, including people with physical disabilities. Our work is simple to describe and particular in the doing. We send trained carers to people...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
React HCP · Building 2, Manchester, Tameside, M34 3QS
Home care · Run by React HCP Ltd
React HCP provides home care to older people and younger adults living across the Tameside area of Manchester. We keep our remit narrow on purpose, because it lets us do the work properly rather than spreading ourselves thin. What we offer...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Younger Adults
Routes Healthcare · Tameside Business Park, Manchester, Tameside, M34 3QS
Home care · CQC Requires improvement · Run by Routes Healthcare (North) Limited
Routes Healthcare Tameside provides support at home to adults across Tameside and the surrounding part of Greater Manchester. The people we work with include adults living with dementia, people with a learning disability, autistic adults,...
Specialisms: Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Visual / Hearing Impairment, Eating Disorders, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Shabach Health Care · Caroline House, Manchester, Tameside, M34 5HQ
Home care · CQC Good · Run by Shabach Health Care Ltd
At Shabach Health Care in Tameside, Manchester, we provide home care support to people across a wide range of needs and circumstances. We work with older adults, people living with dementia, individuals with learning disabilities or...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Learning Disability / Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults, Alcohol / Drug Misuse
Starlight Employment Services · Gallery House Offices, Manchester, Tameside, M34 2NA
Home care · Run by Starlight Employment Services Limited
Here at Starlight Employment, we provide home care across Manchester and Tameside, supporting people to live as independently as possible in the comfort of their own homes. We believe that where you live should feel like your own space,...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
GleeCS Healthcare Solution · Office 4 Copley, Stalybridge, Tameside, SK15 2QF
Home care · Run by GleeCS Healthcare Solution Ltd
GleeCS Healthcare Solution provides support at home for people in Stalybridge and the surrounding part of Tameside. Most of the people we visit are older and many are living with dementia. Our work is practical and personal. A carer comes...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care
Northern Angels Care Manchester · The Bungalow, Stalybridge, Tameside, SK15 3PT
Home care · Run by Northern Angels Care Ltd
We are Northern Angels Care Manchester, a home care agency based in Stalybridge and supporting adults across Tameside and the wider Manchester area. We visit people at home so that they can carry on living where they want to be. Most of...
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Dementia Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
Sterling Care Manchester · Unit 11A, Stalybridge, Tameside, SK15 1FF
Home care · Run by Sterling Care Manchester Ltd
We at Sterling Care Manchester are proud to provide compassionate home care across Stalybridge and the wider Tameside area, supporting older people and younger adults to live well within the comfort and familiarity of their own homes....
Specialisms: Older Person Care, Physical Disability, Younger Adults
TNT Healthcare Service · 35 Elms Road, Stalybridge, Tameside, SK15 3EJ
Home care · Run by TNT Healthcare Services Limited
TNT Healthcare supports people in their own homes in Stalybridge and across Tameside. We work with older people, people living with dementia, people living with mental ill health, adults with a physical disability, people with visual or...
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, North West Middle half of prices from 9 agencies. Median £26.58. Shown for North West because too few Tameside agencies publish a rate.	£25.00 to £28.90 an hour
What Tameside pays Average hourly rate, October 2026.	£24.40 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

Routes Healthcare Tameside, 12 November 2025, Requires improvement
Smartway Health and Social Care Limited, 3 June 2024, Requires improvement
Tameside Learning Disability Service, 2 February 2024, Good

Longest since a report

Direct Care (Tameside), 25 July 2018, Good
Head Office, 26 July 2018, Good
Comfort Call Tameside, 17 October 2018, Good

Frequently asked questions about home care in Tameside

How many home care agencies are there in Tameside?

Tameside has 31 CQC registered home care agencies: 1 Outstanding, 13 Good, 3 Requires improvement, 14 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 Tameside?

Hourly care visits, North West: £25.00 to £28.90 an hour. Middle half of prices from 9 agencies. Median £26.58. Shown for North West because too few Tameside 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 Tameside were inspected most recently?

Routes Healthcare Tameside (12 November 2025), Smartway Health and Social Care Limited (3 June 2024) and Tameside Learning Disability Service (2 February 2024) have the most recent CQC reports.

Local care news in Tameside

5 changes in care across Tameside this week (5 November 2026)

More local care news for Tameside