Dolphin Healthcare Services
Sheldon Community Centre, Birmingham, B26 2RU · Birmingham · West Midlands
This is CQC’s published rating for the homecare service at this location. CQC has not published a separate location-level rating here — it rates the regulated services individually.
What the record says
Rated Good overall, but 1 of this operator's 2 rated services is below Good.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Delight Essential Services UK Limited's 2 rated services, 1 is below Good — not this one.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits) · Extra care housing · Shared Lives (care in a carer’s own home) · Supported living
- Registered with CQC
- 4 Dec 2015
- Run by
- Delight Essential Services UK Limited
- Phone
- 01212433384
- Website
- www.dolphinhealthcare.co.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
Select a group to see other services registered for it in Birmingham.
Care at home (visits) · Extra care housing · Shared Lives (care in a carer’s own home) · Supported living
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
For the homecare service — the same service the rating above belongs to.
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Good | 29 Aug 2025 |
| Effective | Good | 29 Aug 2025 |
| Caring | no rating published | — |
| Responsive | no rating published | — |
| Well-led | Good | 29 Aug 2025 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service. A dash means CQC’s published data holds no rating for that key question for this service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
More on what actually decides a good home-care agency at choosing home care.
- What to ask a home care agencyContinuity of carer, missed visits, who answers at 8pm — the questions that actually decide it.
- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other home-care agencies within 5 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses — for an agency that is its office, not where the care happens, so ask whether they cover the postcode. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Blue Diamonds Professional Services Limited Officeabout 0.4 miles · BirminghamGood, published 10 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- 24-7 Care Servicesabout 0.5 miles · BirminghamRequires improvement, published 4 Jan 2024
- Ables Community Care Ltdabout 0.5 miles · BirminghamNot yet rated
- Arden Placeabout 0.7 miles · BirminghamGood, published 13 Apr 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-2300927102
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.