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Home care and supported living in North East, in numbers

323 providers and 440 home care and supported living locations in North East, 11% below Good on Well-led, 23 new in 12 months. CQC data, 1 Oct 2026.

Source: CQC open data, 1 October 2026, aggregated by Care Upkeep. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information from the Care Quality Commission. No provider is named.

323providers with a location in North East440 locations; 9 of 9 regions by locations
70%of those providers run one locationEngland: 89%
11%of rated community care locations below Good on Well-ledEngland: 19%
23new locations in the 12 months to 1 Oct 20263 first-time providers

North East has 440 registered home care and supported living locations, run by 323 providers. That is 3% of England's 14,594.

290 locations are domiciliary care only, 104 are registered for both domiciliary care and supported living, and 46 are supported living only. 98 (22%) have no CQC rating yet. 245 providers (76%) have a website recorded by CQC.

Ratings in North East

Ratings below are at location level for CQC's "Community based adult social care services" category, which includes home care, supported living, extra care and Shared Lives, excluding care homes. 465 rated locations in North East.

Ratings by key question, North East

CQC latest ratings, 1 October 2026. Unrated locations excluded.SafeSafe, Outstanding: 6 (1.3%)Safe, Good: 422 (90.8%)Safe, Requires improvement: 32 (6.9%)Safe, Inadequate: 5 (1.1%)465EffectiveEffective, Outstanding: 11 (2.4%)Effective, Good: 436 (94.8%)Effective, Requires improvement: 9 (2.0%)Effective, Inadequate: 4 (0.9%)460CaringCaring, Outstanding: 41 (8.9%)Caring, Good: 411 (89.0%)Caring, Requires improvement: 6 (1.3%)Caring, Inadequate: 4 (0.9%)462ResponsiveResponsive, Outstanding: 26 (5.6%)Responsive, Good: 420 (91.1%)Responsive, Requires improvement: 11 (2.4%)Responsive, Inadequate: 4 (0.9%)461Well-ledWell-led, Outstanding: 32 (6.9%)Well-led, Good: 381 (81.9%)Well-led, Requires improvement: 45 (9.7%)Well-led, Inadequate: 7 (1.5%)465OverallOverall, Outstanding: 33 (7.1%)Overall, Good: 397 (85.4%)Overall, Requires improvement: 30 (6.5%)Overall, Inadequate: 5 (1.1%)465
OutstandingGoodRequires improvementInadequate

Well-led: 52 of 465 rated locations (11%) are Requires improvement or Inadequate, against 19% across England. Safe: 37 (8%). Well-led is assessed against Regulation 17, good governance; see why Well-led is where ratings drop.

New registrations in North East

New locations by year

Location registration start dates; still-active locations only, so older years are undercounted. 2026 is January to September. Peak year on the current register: 2021 (34).20152015: 282820162016: 282820172017: 292920182018: 262620192019: 313120202020: 222220212021: 343420222022: 212120232023: 343420242024: 343420252025: 242420262026: 2020

23 new locations and 3 first-time providers in the 12 months to 1 October 2026. Each new provider sent CQC a full set of supporting documents with review dates; twelve months on, those review dates fall due. What CQC means by review dates and working links.

Local authorities in North East

Local authority as CQC records it for the location's address. 12 local authorities.

Local authorityLocations
County Durham63
Northumberland53
Sunderland48
Newcastle upon Tyne48
Gateshead48
North Tyneside42
Stockton-on-Tees41
Middlesbrough25
Darlington21
Redcar and Cleveland20
South Tyneside19
Hartlepool12

What CQC expects from a new provider in North East

CQC's requirements are national. A provider in North East sends the same forms and supporting documents, has the same DBS and registered manager rules, and is assessed against the same five key questions as one anywhere else in England. There are no regional CQC rules. Local authority commissioning and rates do differ; those are not CQC matters and are not covered here.
1Which documents does CQC want from my agency?

Five questions, a tick list of every form, check and document with CQC's source for each, a readiness ring, print to PDF.

 2The document checklist

CQC's own list for home care and supported living with the regulation each document answers.

 3How to apply, step by step

One email, the 25 MB limit, what rejection costs, the assessment stages, from CQC's pages.

Who this is not for. Anyone looking for a list of agencies in North East or a rating for a specific service: CQC's own website has both. This page is aggregates only and names no provider. It is not legal advice and is not endorsed by CQC.

Questions

How many home care agencies are there in North East?

323 providers run 440 registered home care or supported living locations in North East (CQC active locations file, 1 October 2026). 70% of those providers run a single location nationally.

How are home care services in North East rated by CQC?

Of 465 rated community adult social care locations in North East, 397 are Good, 33 Outstanding, 30 Requires improvement and 5 Inadequate. On the Well-led key question, 11% are below Good (England: 19%).

Does CQC have different requirements in North East?

No. CQC's registration requirements, supporting documents and assessment framework are the same across England. The numbers on this page describe the local market, not local rules.

How the numbers were made. Active, non-dormant locations in the CQC active locations file (1 October 2026) with a Domiciliary care or Supported living service type and a location region of "North East". A provider is counted in a region if it has at least one such location there, so providers operating in several regions appear in each; summing providers across regions gives more than the England total of 11,058. Location counts sum exactly to the England total. Single-location share uses the provider's locations nationally. Key question ratings come from the latest ratings file (1 October 2026), Locations sheet, community adult social care category, location-level reports, care homes excluded.
Sources
  1. CQC: HSCA active locations file, 1 October 2026 (page updated 2 October 2026)
  2. CQC: latest ratings file, 1 October 2026 (page updated 2 October 2026)

Other regions: South East · London · East of England · West Midlands · North West · East Midlands · South West · Yorkshire and the Humber. All nine: by region. Downloads: CSV and JSON with a data dictionary.

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