Carers support contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most carers support contracts took 25% of them (14 of 57).
• The median contract, £1.1m, is 4 times the median across social care contracts (£281k).
• Gloucestershire County Council awarded 7% of the carers support contracts (4 of 57).

1. 1Gloucestershire County Council4 contracts£12.1m
2. 2Kent County Council3 contracts£42.7m
3. 3Renfrewshire Council3 contracts£2.5m
4. 4Leeds City Council - PACS2 contracts£13.0m
5. 5NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board2 contracts£3.3m
6. 6Nottinghamshire County Council2 contracts£3.2m
7. 7West Lothian Council2 contracts£2.2m
8. 8North Tyneside Council2 contracts£1.1m
9. 9Hertfordshire County Council2 contracts—
10. 10Oxfordshire County Council1 contract£10.7m

1. 1Mobilise Care Limited4 contracts£1.4m
2. 2n-compass3 contracts£7.9m
3. 3TuVida3 contracts£2.2m
4. 4Imago Community2 contracts£19.5m
5. 5Carers Network Westminster2 contracts£6.6m
6. 6Involve Kent1 contract£23.5m
7. 7Disability Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly1 contract£11.4m
8. 8CARERS LEEDS1 contract£11.4m
9. 9ACTION FOR CARERS (OXFORDSHIRE) LIMITED1 contract£10.7m
10. 10PeoplePlus1 contract£7.8m

Latest

• Soft Market Test for Carers Support Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.5m

  Sheffield City Council to Crossroad Care Rotherham · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Award of Contract for the Provision of a Carers Centre (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.1m

  Renfrewshire Council to supplier not published · Awarded 23 September 2026

• Carer Peer Support and Carer Ambassador Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £398k

  Devon County Council to Age UK Devon · Awarded 17 September 2026

• Community Outreach (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £44k

  Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council to Sandwell Parents for Disabled Children · Awarded 15 September 2026

• CPU 8616 - Carers Support Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £166k

  Nottingham City Council to TuVida · Awarded 3 September 2026

• ITT_30630 - Carers Hub Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.8m

  Westminster City Council to Carers Network Westminster · Awarded 2 September 2026

• BwD All Age Carers Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.5m

  Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to Blackburn with Darwen Carers Service · Awarded 14 August 2026

• Short Breaks 2026-2029 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £423k

  NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to TuVida · Awarded 12 August 2026

• Provision of an Adult Unpaid Carers Support Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £7.8m

  Gloucestershire County Council to PeoplePlus · Awarded 25 June 2026

• Provision of a Young Carers and Young Adult Support Service in Gloucestershire (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £3.1m

  Gloucestershire County Council to GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUNG CARERS PROJECT · Awarded 4 June 2026

Largest

• Kent Carers Support Service (Lot 1 - East Kent) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £23.5m

  Kent County Council to Involve Kent · Awarded 20 May 2026

• Kent Carers Support Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £18.5m

  Kent County Council to Imago Community · Awarded 31 October 2025

• Information, Advice & Support for Unpaid Adult and Parent Carers in Leeds. (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £11.4m

  Leeds City Council - PACS to CARERS LEEDS · Awarded 25 November 2025

• Carers Support Service I-4805 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £10.7m

  Oxfordshire County Council to ACTION FOR CARERS (OXFORDSHIRE) LIMITED · Awarded 11 March 2026

Information, advice, carers' assessments, one-to-one casework, emotional and peer support, emergency planning and small breaks for unpaid carers of all ages, often through a carers centre, with young carers and specialist strands such as mental health or dementia carers as facets.

• Adult carers centres and unpaid carers services
• Young carers services and all-age carers services
• Carer casework, triage and emergency planning
• Mental health and dementia carer support strands
• Carer strain support within prevention programmes

• Replacement care at home so the carer can take a break (soc.carer.adult-respite-at-home-and-community)
• Residential respite stays (soc.res.adult-residential-respite)
• Short breaks for disabled children (soc.carer.community-activity-short-breaks-disabled-children; soc.carer.overnight-short-breaks-disabled-children)
• Care Act carers' assessments bought as an outsourced assessment service (soc.advoc.care-act-assessments-and-reviews)
• Dementia advisers for the person with dementia (soc.prev.dementia-support)
• Kinship carers raising relatives' children (soc.family.kinship-care-support)
• Support for family members affected by drug and alcohol use (another industry: healthcare)

• Rock salt
• Residential childcare