About CareHomeUK

An independent directory of registered care homes in England and Scotland, built from the public registers of the Care Quality Commission and the Care Inspectorate.

That is every adult care home on those registers: 15,836 of them, run by 7,713 providers across 327 councils. A home does not have to pay, sign up or know about us to be listed. Families use the site for free.

What you can check here

• Whether a home is registered for nursing, residential care or both, read from the register rather than its name.
• Its registered beds, from the CQC in England and the Care Inspectorate in Scotland.
• The regulator’s verdict: the CQC rating and the five areas behind it, or the Care Inspectorate’s grades from 1 to 6.
• A link to the regulator’s own record on every home, so you can check us against the source.

Lists are ordered by the regulator’s verdict and then by size. Nobody pays to appear higher. Where our data comes from.

What we are not

We are not a care home, a placement agency or a regulator, and we do not take a fee from any home for sending you to it. We cannot tell you a home is right for your family. We can show you who is registered near you and what the regulator found, and point you at the evidence. We do not list homes in Wales or Northern Ireland yet.

Who is behind it

CareHomeUK is run by Burfield Digital Limited, registered in England and Wales with company number 05980969, which also runs BestHomeCarers, the same kind of directory for home care. For anything on this site, email hello@besthomecarers.com.