Home care agency
Leading Care Lancashire
Home care agency in Preston, Lancashire
Leading Care Lancashire
Home care agency in Preston, Lancashire
Operated by Kare Plus
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- Green Surroundings — Excellent access to parks, playing fields and other green space nearby (OpenStreetMap).
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About
Leading Care Lancashire provides home care, meaning care and support delivered in people's own homes, across Preston, Blackpool, Chorley and the wider Lancashire area. Its services include live-in care, dementia care and private care, with visits ranging from a single hour a week to full-time live-in support. The agency says it matches each person with a carer suited to their needs, and that support can cover morning and bedtime routines, daily tasks and companionship, with care planned around the person's own life and routines.
The agency's office is in Preston. It is rated Good by the Care Quality Commission, with Good ratings across all five key questions: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. Its care focus is dementia, and it supports older people, younger adults under 65, and people with physical or learning disabilities.
What inspectors found
CQC: GoodReport published 12 April 2023 · Last inspected 23 February 2023
Inspectors found that everyday care at this home-care service is delivered well, with people describing care as very good and staff as respectful, kind and caring. Care plans were person-centred, risks were identified and managed, and medicines were handled safely. Staffing levels, consent processes and staff training were also found to be adequate.
- People said the care they received was very good and spoke positively about staff
- Care plans took a person-centred approach and risks were identified with detailed plans
- Medicines were administered and managed safely, with enough staff on the rota
- Management and staff were described very positively by people using the service
- Accident and incident records were not consistently monitored to identify lessons, themes or trends
- Quality monitoring and auditing systems were not fully established, and oversight was not always formally recorded
- There was no recorded analysis or review to show where the service could improve
Written by AI from the report text and checked against it. Not an official CQC statement. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the full report on CQC.
Care provided
Specialist care
What's nearby
Straight-line distances.
What’s in the area
Outdoor Spaces
- AllotmentsAdequate
- Play SpacePlentiful
- Golf CourseSparse
- Public ParkAdequate
- Tennis CourtPlentiful
- Bowling GreenPlentiful
- Playing FieldAdequate
Local Amenities
- Pubs & BarsPlentiful
- Restaurants & CafesPlentiful
- Retail ShoppingPlentiful
- SupermarketsPlentiful
- TakeawaysPlentiful
What home care costs
Estimated typical UK ranges — Leading Care Lancashire will give you a written quote after a free needs assessment. Check who pays with the funding calculator.
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Local health safety net
Leading Care Lancashire is backed by a local NHS health network. The nearest A&E is Royal Preston Hospital, 1.2 miles away. The local GP practice is LANE ENDS SURGERY, 0.8 miles away.
Nearest services from NHS ODS + postcodes.io + CQC, by straight-line distance.
Part of Kare Plus
Leading Care Lancashire is one of 20 services run by Kare Plus on AskBart. See how the group's services are rated and where it operates.
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Information last reviewed October 2026.
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