Head Office
16 Gaymore Road, Kidderminster, DY10 3TU · Worcestershire · West Midlands
CQC holds more than one live registration at this address
That usually means a service is changing hands and the outgoing registration has not been removed yet. The ratings below belong to the OTHER registration, not to this page — check both before you judge the home.
- Head Office — Principle Care Agency LimitedRequires improvement, published 16 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs old
“Not yet rated” means CQC has not published a rating for this registration — usual for recently registered services, which can wait months or years for a first inspection. It is not a judgement either way about this registration — but CQC has rated the other live registration at this address, above. Read that one too.
What the record says
CQC has not yet published an overall rating for this service — a common position for a recently registered service, and not a judgement either way.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care at home (visits)
- Registered with CQC
- 2 Mar 2026
- Run by
- PCA Dom 1 Limited
- Phone
- 07763566589
- Website
- www.principole-care.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.
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Care at home (visits)
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Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
No key-question ratings published. CQC rates services on five questions — safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — once it has inspected; this service has no published inspection ratings yet.
Data as published by CQC to 8 Jul 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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Other services in Kidderminsterregistered for at least one of the same groups this service supports, listed with the strongest CQC ratings first. A place to look around — not a recommendation, and not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Arch Hill CourtKidderminsterGood, published 19 Sep 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Berrington CourtKidderminsterGood, published 1 Dec 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Bewdley Care LimitedKidderminsterGood, published 12 Mar 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- CM Bespoke Care LtdKidderminsterGood, published 28 Jul 2018rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-26404952208
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 8 Jul 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.