Data study
Care home CQC ratings by council, 2026
Which councils in England have the highest share of care homes rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC? A league table of every council, from the CQC register.
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CQC data as at 25 September 2026, updated monthly · Download the data (CSV)
Every council
| Rank | Council | Rated care homes | Good or Outstanding | Outstanding | Requires improvement or Inadequate |
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Methodology
Source: the Care Quality Commission's monthly “Latest ratings” file, taken from CQC's database (Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers every active care home in England registered with CQC, whether or not it is listed on AskBart, grouped by the council CQC records for the home. The date shown at the top is the date CQC's data is “as at”.
A home counts as rated when its current overall CQC rating is Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate. Homes with no published rating, or with an assessment that didn't give one (for example “insufficient evidence to rate”), are left out of the percentages.
Councils are ranked by the share of rated homes that are Good or Outstanding, then by the share that are Outstanding. Councils with fewer than 10 rated care homes are listed but not ranked, because a single home moves their figure too much.
A rating is the CQC's most recent published rating, whatever its date. Many were given several years ago: see our study of rating ages.
See also how AskBart's data is sourced and this month's CQC rating changes and closures.
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The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: please credit AskBart with a link to this page. It contains public sector information from the CQC licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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AskBart (2026). Care home CQC ratings by council, 2026. Analysis of Care Quality Commission ratings data as at 25 September 2026. https://www.askbart.org/insights/care-home-cqc-ratings-by-council
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