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Working in care in Camden

Home care by bus, Tube and on foot: how does Camden work?

Camden stretches from Holborn and King's Cross up through Kentish Town to Hampstead, and nearly all of its care work happens in people's own homes. Home care agencies make up the clear majority of care employers here. The council itself describes its residential and nursing home market as relatively small, and many people who need a care home are placed outside the borough.

The way home care is organised is unusual. Camden recommissioned it onto a neighbourhood model, with a single provider responsible for each area, and the CQC noted in 2025 that this means care workers stay in a local patch and travel less. The council has signed the Ethical Care Charter, and the CQC found its staff check payslips at commissioned providers to make sure care workers receive the London Living Wage and are paid for travel. In a borough this dense, most journeys between visits are short hops by bus, Tube or on foot.

The people you support will be varied. Camden is one of the most unequal boroughs in the country, with very wealthy streets close to areas of real deprivation, and more than 85 languages are spoken here. The council says most of its older residents live alone, so a carer is often someone's main daily contact. Camden is also working to grow a local market of personal assistants paid through direct payments.

For NHS comparisons, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs University College Hospital near Euston. Capital City College's King's Cross centre teaches Health and Social Care from Level 1 to Level 3, plus a Health T Level.

81% of the inspected care employers in Camden are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 88% across London and below England as a whole (85%).