17/07/2026
🎉 WE’VE GOT SOME WONDERFUL NEWS! 🎉
We are incredibly proud to share the outcome of our recent CQC inspection — Essential Homecare has been officially rated GOOD overall, with OUTSTANDING in Well-Led! 💙⭐
The inspection report describes Essential Homecare as “one big family”—and that means so much to us because it perfectly reflects the culture we have worked hard to create.
Our managers lead with compassion, honesty and courage, while our care practitioners work tirelessly every day to provide safe, respectful and genuinely person-centred care. We care about the people we support, their families and one another.
The inspector was particularly impressed by our leadership and governance, commenting that she had never seen governance at this level. Receiving an Outstanding rating for Well-Led is wonderful recognition of the strong culture, systems, learning and teamwork behind everything we do.
Most importantly, this rating reflects the experiences of the people we support and their families. We are grateful to everyone who shared their views and continues to place their trust in us.
We are immensely proud of our managers, care practitioners and everyone who has supported Essential Homecare since we began. We have grown tremendously, but we have never lost sight of what matters most: caring for people properly and treating everyone as an individual.
We will celebrate this achievement, but we will not stand still. We will keep listening, learning and improving as we continue building a service that Wigan can be proud of.
Please join us in congratulating our wonderful managers and the entire Essential Homecare family! 👏💙⭐
We Care. We Are Positive. We Are Brave. We Take Ownership.