Best live-in care agencies in Sevenoaks (CQC-checked, October 2026)

Key Takeaways

This is a scored list of live-in care agencies covering Sevenoaks, CQC-checked on 28 October 2026. Outstanding beats Good, inspections older than four years lose 15 points, and a website-checked published price or live-in offer adds 5 each. Live-in is not a CQC specialism, so that bonus is zero. Every Outstanding record we opened for this town is more than four years old. We run Match With Care. We are not CQC-registered as a care provider, so we sit in a labelled box outside this list. Method: how we rank agencies.

If you already have Unique Senior Care's Kent comparison open in another tab, keep it. Last checked August 2026, it puts Unique first. That is their table. Ours is further down.

CQC looked at the data for every agency in this set on 6 July 2023 and decided not to reassess any of them. The ratings below are older than that visit.

Age UK (updated 18 February 2026) still points families at registered homecare agencies, or at arranging a private carer themselves. If savings sit above £23,250, Age UK says the council will not help with care costs. The NHS puts help at home from a paid carer at about £15 to £30 an hour, and is plain that you might need a live-in carer. Age UK's cost page (updated 19 August 2026) puts privately arranged care at home around £25 an hour, and a residential care home around £1,100 a week. Attendance Allowance is still £76.70 a week, or £114.60 if help is needed through both day and night.

After a discharge from Sevenoaks Hospital, a family in Riverhead can open Unique's Kent page and see £265 a day. Helping Hands already printed £1,675 a week. Multiply the daily figure before you call either of them the cheaper option.

How we scored these live-in care agencies

The CQC (updated 1 July 2025) registers people who carry on regulated activity. Homecare agencies that provide personal care have to be on that register. Introductory platforms do not, which is why Elder, Curam and Care.com UK are not in this table.

Each location starts at 100 for Outstanding, 60 for Good, or 20 for Requires improvement. An inspection older than four years, or missing, loses 15. A listed live-in specialism would add 10; none of these CQC pages had one. A website-checked published hourly or weekly from-price adds 5. A website-checked live-in offer adds 5. Ties break on the more recent inspection, then the name. Full rules: agency ranking methodology. Pages opened for this round are named under each agency. Checked 28 October 2026.

We also opened Cera-Kent at Saphir House, Faversham: Good, report published 24 November 2020, Effective still Requires improvement. Sevenoaks is not named on that record. Cera sits outside this table. Elder is an introductory platform, not a CQC agency.

What are the best live-in care agencies in Sevenoaks?

On this 28 October 2026 check we scored nine CQC-registered locations that publish live-in care and operate in, or into, Sevenoaks. The table is the order. Scores come from the method above, not from anyone's own comparison page.

Comparison table

Rank	Agency	Score	CQC rating	Last inspection	Website-checked fact	Drawback
1	Unique Senior Care	95	Outstanding	Report published 27 Aug 2021	Live-in from £265 a day / £1,855 a week; Sevenoaks named	Inspection more than four years old; office in Solihull
2	Trinity Homecare (Edenbridge)	95	Outstanding	Report published 18 Jul 2019	Live-in from £1,694 a week; Sevenoaks coverage page	Inspection more than four years old
3	The Good Care Group	95	Outstanding	Report published 12 Apr 2019	Live-in from £256 a day; Sevenoaks page	Inspection more than four years old
4	Home Instead Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks & Edenbridge	90	Outstanding	Report published 3 Jun 2020	Live-in listed on the Sevenoaks page	Inspection more than four years old; no from-price
5	All About Home Care (Kent)	90	Outstanding	Report published 6 Mar 2020	Live-in listed; Sevenoaks team named	Inspection more than four years old; pricing page 404
6	Helping Hands Tunbridge Wells	55	Good	Report published 23 Jan 2020	Sevenoaks live-in from £1,675 a week	Inspection more than four years old; CQC is Tunbridge Wells
7	Consultus Care and Nursing	55	Good	Report published 20 Feb 2019	Managed live-in from £1,603 a week; Sevenoaks page	Inspection more than four years old
8	Bluebird Care (Sevenoaks)	50	Good	Report published 5 Dec 2019	Live-in listed on the local site	Inspection more than four years old; no from-price
9	Home Instead (Halstead, Sevenoaks)	50	Good	Report published 22 Aug 2018	Live-in listed; second Sevenoaks franchise	Inspection more than four years old; no from-price

Checked 28 October 2026. Scores follow how we rank agencies. Match With Care is not in this table.

1. Unique Senior Care · 95

Why it ranks here. Unique Care on comparison pages is Unique Senior Care in the CQC register. CQC location 1-7601685405 in Knowle, Solihull, is Outstanding, report published 27 August 2021. Dementia is listed. The Kent live-in page (updated 13 October 2026) names Sevenoaks and Knole Park, and publishes live-in from £265 a day for one person, or £330 a day for a couple. The costs page (updated 7 October 2026) restates £1,855 a week for one person. Among the three agencies on 95, this is the newest Outstanding report.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old, so it loses 15 points. The registered office is in Solihull. Unique's own Kent comparison still lists Unique first. The 2021 report is why it leads here.

Sources: CQC, Kent live-in, costs.

2. Trinity Homecare (Edenbridge) · 95

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-292775492 at 139/139A High Street, Edenbridge, is Outstanding, report published 18 July 2019. Dementia is listed. Caring, Responsive and Well-led are Outstanding; Safe and Effective are Good. Ellie Black is the registered manager on that record. The Sevenoaks coverage page names live-in around Sevenoaks, including London Road, High Street and Seal Hollow Road, and lists Ellie as Kent branch manager. The group live-in page (reviewed 19 October 2026) publishes live-in from £1,694 a week for lower support needs.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. Unique's Kent comparison, checked August 2026, says Trinity does not publish one standard Kent live-in starting price. The £1,694 figure is a national starting number, not a Sevenoaks quote. Unique takes the 95 tie on inspection date.

Sources: CQC, Sevenoaks coverage, live-in.

3. The Good Care Group · 95

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-1489174477 at Portsoken House, Minories, is Outstanding, report published 12 April 2019, in all five key questions. Dementia is listed. CQC last reviewed the information on 6 July 2023 and did not reassess. The Sevenoaks live-in page names Sevenoaks, Otford, Seal, Westerham and Edenbridge, and names Sylvia Baldock as Care Manager for Kent. It also names discharge teams at Sevenoaks Hospital, Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Princess Royal University Hospital. The national live-in page publishes live-in from £256 a day.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. Unique's 2021 report is newer, so Unique takes the 95 tie. The Sevenoaks page says The Good Care Group is the only live-in provider in Sevenoaks rated Outstanding across all five CQC questions. That is true of this CQC record. All About Home Care is Outstanding overall, with Effective rated Good. Unique's Safe, Effective and Caring ratings are Good.

Sources: CQC, Sevenoaks live-in, live-in.

4. Home Instead Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks & Edenbridge · 90

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-309769246 at 1 The Long Barn, Mousden Farm, Halls Hole Road, Tunbridge Wells, is Outstanding, report published 3 June 2020. Dementia is listed. Effective, Responsive and Well-led are Outstanding. The Sevenoaks live-in page describes a Care Professional living in the home and lists this office first, covering Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, St John's and High Brooms.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. No from-price on the pages we opened, so the price bonus is zero. The same live-in page also lists a second franchise, Shoreham, Petts Wood and Longfield. That is a different CQC record, scored separately below.

Sources: CQC, local live-in.

5. All About Home Care (Kent) · 90

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-2038764854 at Riverside House, River Lawn Road, Tonbridge, is Outstanding, report published 6 March 2020. Dementia is listed. Safe, Caring, Responsive and Well-led are Outstanding; Effective is Good. This is the only Outstanding location in the set actually registered in West Kent. The live-in page says a dedicated carer lives in the home across Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Maidstone. The Sevenoaks page names Jo Allchin as Field Care Supervisor, covering Otford, Kemsing, Seal, Chipstead, Westerham, Borough Green and Edenbridge.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. We opened allabouthomecare.co.uk/pricing on 28 October 2026; it returned 404. No hourly or weekly from-price on the pages that loaded, so the price bonus is zero. It trails Home Instead Tunbridge Wells on the 90 tie because that inspection is three months newer.

Sources: CQC, live-in, Sevenoaks.

6. Helping Hands Tunbridge Wells · 55

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-6274970784 at 42 Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, is Good, report published 23 January 2020. Dementia is listed. The Sevenoaks live-in page says the nearest branch is Tunbridge Wells, publishes live-in at £1,675 a week for one person, or £2,125 for a couple, and prints the address as "Helping Hands Tunbridge Wells, 42 Monson Road, Sevenoaks, TN1 1LU".

Where it falls short. The rating is Good, so it starts 40 points behind Outstanding, and the inspection is more than four years old. TN1 1LU is Tunbridge Wells. CQC registers it there.

Sources: CQC, Sevenoaks live-in.

7. Consultus Care and Nursing · 55

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-120788654 at 4 London Road, Tonbridge, is Good, report published 20 February 2019. Dementia is listed. The Sevenoaks live-in page names Gemma as the local Care Consultant and is plain that introductory live-in is not CQC-regulated. The costs page publishes managed live-in from £1,603 a week, and introductory live-in from £1,092 a week. We scored the managed figure, because that is the CQC-regulated arm. The Sevenoaks FAQ also prints a starting package of £1,092 a week; that is the introductory rate.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. Introductory care from £1,092 is not CQC-regulated. Helping Hands takes the 55 tie on inspection date.

Sources: CQC, Sevenoaks, costs.

8. Bluebird Care (Sevenoaks) · 50

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-345046401 at 87 St Johns Hill is Good, report published 5 December 2019. Dementia is listed. The 2019 inspection report we opened talks to live-in care workers and to people receiving live-in packages. The local site lists live-in care and coverage of Sevenoaks, Otford, Kemsing, Seal, Westerham and Edenbridge. Charlotte Gore is named as registered manager on both the CQC record and the local page.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. No from-price on the pages we opened, so the price bonus is zero.

Sources: CQC, local site.

9. Home Instead (Halstead, Sevenoaks) · 50

Why it ranks here. CQC location 1-3882103168 at Polhill Business Centre, Halstead, is Good, report published 22 August 2018. Dementia is listed. The same Sevenoaks live-in page lists Shoreham, Petts Wood and Longfield as the second local office, covering Otford, Halstead and Borough Green.

Where it falls short. The inspection is more than four years old. No from-price. Two Home Instead franchises sit on the same marketing page. One is Outstanding (2020). This one is Good (2018). Check which office would actually take the booking.

Sources: CQC, local live-in.

Best-for picks from the same scores

• Highest score in this Sevenoaks live-in set: Unique Senior Care, 95, because its Outstanding report is the newest of the three agencies on that score.
• Most recently inspected Outstanding: Unique Senior Care, report published 27 August 2021. All About Home Care is the only Outstanding location in the set actually registered in West Kent.
• Lowest website-checked live-in from-price: Consultus managed live-in, £1,603 a week. Helping Hands prints £1,675 a week on the Sevenoaks live-in page. Trinity publishes from £1,694 a week. The Good Care Group publishes from £256 a day. Unique publishes from £1,855 a week, or £265 a day.

If you want an introductory platform instead of a CQC-inspected agency, that is a different list: best live-in care platforms in the UK. Related: how much live-in care costs, what live-in care consists of, live-in care in Guildford and live-in care in Watford.

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