About Home Care Family
An independent UK information resource for families arranging or watching over home care for a relative. Not a regulator. Not a care provider. Not a directory.
The UK home care landscape
Around 960,000 people in the UK receive home care — visits to their relative's home from a paid carer. The Department of Health & Social Care projects 57% more adults aged 65 and over will need home care by 2038 than did in 2018.
The system delivering that care is under strain. Around 1 in 10 home care posts is unfilled today, and 74% of providers cite recruitment difficulties as their main constraint. In practice that means visits get missed, schedules slip, and families end up wondering whether their relative's carer actually turned up.
This site is for the families navigating that.
Source: PolicyBee — UK domiciliary care statistics 2026 , citing the Office for National Statistics, Skills for Care, the Homecare Association, and the Department of Health & Social Care.
What we publish
We publish guides written for adult children and partners of people receiving care — the people who are usually arranging it, paying for it, and asking the questions when something doesn't feel right.
We don't list providers in directory form and we don't take fees from the agencies we write about. Where guides reference specific providers, everything we say is sourced from public CQC inspection reports, with links so you can read the source yourself.
Who writes this
The site is run by John, founder of MyFamilyCare — a small UK software product that helps families and agencies see exactly when home-care visits happen.
Several guides recommend MyFamilyCare as a practical tool, with a contextual call-to-action at the end. We say so openly each time it appears. Nothing else on this site is sponsored by anyone.
If that affiliation isn't acceptable to you as a reader, the rest of the guides still stand on their own — every regulatory claim is sourced and linkable, and the practical advice doesn't require buying anything.
What we link to
Where guides reference regulators, charities, or government services, we link directly to the source so you can verify or read more:
England's care regulator. Every registered care provider has a page here with inspection ratings and reports.
Guidance on care funding, complaints, and the rights of older people using care services.
Investigates complaints about councils, including care commissioned by them. The final escalation route for council-commissioned care disputes.
Get in touch
Questions about a guide, suggestions for what to write about, or corrections welcome. A real person reads every message.
john@homecarefamily.co.uk