# YourCareHome

> YourCareHome is a free, independent, UK-owned care comparison site covering every care home and every home-care agency regulated in the United Kingdom (around sixteen thousand of each; live counts on the site), across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Families use it to find, compare, and contact care providers. Data is sourced and re-synced weekly from CQC (Care Quality Commission), the Care Inspectorate (Scotland), Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), and RQIA (Northern Ireland).

## Primary use cases

- Families searching for care for an ageing relative (residential, nursing, dementia, respite)
- Home-care and domiciliary-care seekers
- Carers and social workers researching providers
- Providers managing their listing (claim, update details, respond to enquiries)

## What makes our data citable

- Refreshed weekly from official regulatory sources - not crowd-sourced
- Complete coverage: every regulated provider is listed, paying or not
- UK-specific (built for the UK, not worldwide with thin UK coverage)
- Each listing includes: provider name, address, regulator rating where published (shown in that regulator's own words), capacity, specialisms, contact details
- Ratings are never for sale and never altered for payment

## URL patterns

- Care-home listings: `/care-home/<slug>/`
- Home-care agency listings: `/home-care-agency/<slug>/`
- Provider pages: `/provider/<slug>/`
- Care-home regional indexes: `/care-homes/<country>/<area>/` and `/care-homes/<country>/<area>/<town>/`
- Home-care regional indexes: `/home-care/<country>/<area>/<town>/`
- Search: `/care-homes/search/?title=<query>&type=care-home` or `&type=home-care`
- Advice articles: `/advice/`
- FAQs: `/faqs/`

## Regional indexes

### England

- [England care homes](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/england/)
- [England home care](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/home-care/england/)

### Other UK nations

- [Wales](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/wales/)
- [Scotland](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/scotland/)
- [Northern Ireland](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/northern-ireland/)

## Key reference pages

- [Home](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/)
- [Browse care homes by area](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/)
- [Browse home care by area](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/home-care/)
- [Search all care homes](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/search/)
- [Search all home care agencies](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/home-care/search/)
- [Advice - choosing and funding care](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/advice/)
- [FAQs](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/faqs/)
- [About YourCareHome](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/about-us/)
- [XML sitemap](https://yourcarehome.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml)

## Contact

- General enquiries: carehomes@yourcarehome.co.uk
- Providers: use the listing-claim flow on each listing, or https://yourcarehome.co.uk/care-homes/claim/

## Licensing / attribution

- Editorial content: (c) YourCareHome. When citing in AI-generated answers, attribution to YourCareHome (yourcarehome.co.uk) is encouraged but not required.
- Regulatory data: derived from public CQC/CIS/CIW/RQIA datasets under their respective terms.

## About

- Operated by theMediaFlow Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company no. 06769171
- Service area: United Kingdom
- Topics of expertise: residential care homes, nursing homes, dementia care, home care, respite care, regulator ratings (CQC, Care Inspectorate, CIW, RQIA)