BIRMINGHAM

Start a care or childcare business in Birmingham

We help care and childcare professionals across Birmingham build CQC and Ofsted-registered businesses, while they keep working. We bring the local knowledge of how Birmingham commissions care.

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The care and childcare market in Birmingham

Birmingham is the second-largest city in England and one of the youngest, with a median age well below the national average and one of the largest and most diverse populations in the country. That demographic mix, a young city with large, established communities and many working families, drives strong demand for both adult care and childcare.

Birmingham has long-standing Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Caribbean, Somali, and Eastern European communities, and a great many of the city’s care and childcare professionals come from them. For a lot of experienced workers here, owning a regulated business is a route to independence and security they have earned but never had time to pursue. On the adult care side, demand for care at home continues to grow; on the childcare side, a young population keeps demand for nurseries and early years provision high.

How care is commissioned in Birmingham

Local commissioning details last reviewed 05 June 2026. Always confirm current arrangements with the council.

Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in Europe, and it commissions adult social care on a large scale, increasingly jointly with the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board as part of the local integrated care system. If you want council-funded work, understanding how the council contracts is essential.

For home support, Birmingham uses a Flexible Contracting Arrangement rather than a fixed, closed framework. Providers apply to join, and successful providers are typically allocated up to two geographic areas, sometimes called provider lots, in which to operate. Once you are on the arrangement, the council can refer people to you and continue the packages you already hold. To receive any council-commissioned work, including care homes, supported living, and home support, providers have to be on the council’s social care framework or flexible contracting arrangement.

Applications are handled through the council’s CareMatch portal, and the council operates a quality assurance framework that applies to all the regulated services it commissions. There is also a locally set minimum rate, the Birmingham care wage, that shapes how providers cost their services. The practical point is the same as anywhere: get registered, get compliant, and be ready to apply when you can.

How we help you start in Birmingham

We build your whole regulated business and handle the registration, so you can keep working in Birmingham while we do it. The regulatory process is national, the CQC for adult care, Ofsted for childcare, but we bring an understanding of how Birmingham commissions, so your business is ready to compete for work in the city.

Birmingham questions, answered

Yes. We work with clients across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, and across England. We build and submit your registration remotely and efficiently, so you do not need to take time off work to set your business up.

Birmingham refers council-funded care to providers on its social care framework or flexible contracting arrangement. We set your business up so it is registered, compliant, and ready to apply to join, though winning council work is never guaranteed.

Around sixteen weeks to a submitted CQC or Ofsted application. After that, the regulator’s assessment timeline applies, which is outside our control. We handle the whole process.

Yes. We build both CQC-regulated care businesses and Ofsted-registered childcare and early years businesses, including nurseries and children’s homes, across Birmingham.

Start your Birmingham business properly

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