Every adult care service in the UK, with the regulator’s own verdict
36,178 registered adult social care services across all four UK nations — care homes, nursing homes, home care, supported living and hospices — rebuilt from the public registers of the four national regulators. See the release dates behind these figures.
Current CareFacts register snapshot: 2026-10-07. Check the regulator’s record for changes since that date.
Find care near you
Browse by type of care
Compare registered care homes, nursing homes, home care agencies, supported living services and other adult social care across the UK.
- Home care services and agencies 11,810
- Residential care homes 11,154
- Supported living services 5,620
- Nursing homes 4,736
- Care homes 984
- Extra care housing 729
- Day care services 448
- Hospices 286
- Nursing agencies 215
- Shared Lives schemes 196
The four nations rate care differently
Each nation has its own regulator and its own inspection framework. We keep every regulator’s own wording and add a coarse four-point band so you can compare across borders — carefully. How the mapping works.
| Nation | Regulator | Services | Care homes | Beds | Ratings published |
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| England | Care Quality Commission | 29,420 | 14,371 | 457,940 |
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| Scotland | Care Inspectorate | 3,878 | 984 | 99,008 |
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| Wales | Care Inspectorate Wales | 1,845 | 1,051 | 25,204 |
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| Northern Ireland | RQIA | 1,035 | 468 | 21,599 | None published |
How old is the inspection you’re reading?
A rating is a snapshot of one visit. 8,473 services carry a published rating from a visit more than six years ago — the home may have changed hands, changed manager or changed entirely since. Every page on this site shows the age of the inspection next to the rating, because the date matters as much as the verdict.
Where the beds are
- Kent 912
- Essex 872
- Hampshire 821
- Lancashire 700
- Surrey 673
- Birmingham 605
- Hertfordshire 589
- West Sussex 571
- Norfolk 523
- Nottinghamshire 481
- Devon 477
- Glasgow City 477
The largest operators
Care is concentrated: a small number of groups run a large share of UK beds. These pages show how each operator performs across its whole estate, not one home at a time.
| Operator | Services | Care homes | Beds | Ratings across the estate |
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| Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited | 216 | 216 | 13,665 |
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| Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd | 106 | 106 | 7,427 |
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| Anchor Hanover Group | 131 | 120 | 6,424 |
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| HC-One Limited | 114 | 114 | 6,069 |
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| Sanctuary Care Limited | 99 | 97 | 4,823 |
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| Runwood Homes Limited | 55 | 55 | 3,929 |
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