You can search for social care providers using the search fields in the form on the “Search the Purchasing Directory” page.
This allows you to quickly locate social care providers that match your search criteria.
Example 1: Select “Children” as a Client Group, “Challenging Behaviour” as a Specialist Service”, “SM2 5AS” as a Location and a Distance of 20 miles.
Example 2: Select “Learning Difficulties” as a Client Group, "Aspergers Syndrome" as a Specialist Services, "SM2 5AS" as a location, and a Distance of 20 miles.
To select a specialist service, you must first select a social care client group.
If you don’t find the results you are looking for click “Search again” and the Search page will be clear for you to re-enter your selections.
If you use the Back button to get back to the Search page, the specialist services you selected won't appear. To select these again, click a different client group from the one(s) highlighted, and then re-click the required client group(s). This will enable you to chose specialist services again.
If you multi-select client groups or specialist services, your search will be more limited as the search will only find social care providers offering all of the selected client groups and specialist services you have highlighted. To maximise your search, select just one of the client groups and specialist services
You can search up to a radius of 100 miles from your chosen location. As some specialist social care provision is limited, you may not find a suitable provider within this distance. In this instance, leave the location and distance boxes blank
You can use * as a wildcard in the Key word search. For example Parkinson* will bring up both Parkinson and Parkinsons.
Community Care is aware that addresses of residential children’s social care services are not appropriate to be listed in the public domain and has made every effort to not publish this sensitive information.
Please contact the social care provider directly for further information on specific location. Should you find any entry not complying with our policy, please email comcarepurchasing@rbi.co.uk
You will need to click on the link “Add my organisation” at the bottom of the “Search the Purchasing Directory” page and complete the online form.
Community Care will then contact you to confirm your details have been added to the Purchasing Directory. We aim to load every social care provider’s information onto the site within 5 working days.
Please email any changes to comcarepurchasing@rbi.co.uk, stating clearly which details need to be changed. Community Care will aim to make the changes within 5 working days.
The directory lists thousands of social care providers from both the private and voluntary sectors.
Providers offer both residential and non-residential services/products. These social care providers who are registered with the CSCI (or equivalent) should have their registration number detailed in their entry. To get more details on their report, click on the link to the report (nb children's residential services and certain adult placement services do not have their reports published on the care commission/inspectorate sites for sensitive reasons). If there is no report available, then click on the link on our site to the local care commission/inspectorate telephone numbers for further details
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See question 1 for further details on searching for social care providers.
If you are still having problems, please call 020 8652 4882/4514 or email comcarepurchasing@rbi.co.uk for help.
Social care providers who have paid to enhance their entry will appear at top of the search results page.
All other results appear in alphabetical order after the paid entries.
No. Wherever possible Community Care has listed those social care services registered with an official body e.g. CSCI, DfES.
These bodies should be should be contacted directly for further information. Local inspection body offices can be found by clicking here.
