Our Awards & Accreditations

Our awards

We don’t enter awards for the trophies. We enter them because the judging makes you explain what you actually do, and why, in front of people who know the sector well enough to pull it apart. It’s a useful thing to be put through. Here’s how we’ve done.

The Azure Care team with their trophy after winning The 3Rs Award at the Great British Care Awards South East 2025

Winner

The 3Rs Award

Great British Care Awards South East · October 2025

Recruitment, Retention and Recognition. The category looks for organisations that have found genuinely new ways to attract carers, keep them, and recognise them properly. We won it for building careers rather than filling rotas. It’s the one we’re proudest of, because good care depends entirely on whether good carers want to stay.

Kiran Gill, Director of Azure Care, receiving the Leader of the Future award at the Leading Women in Care Awards 2026

Winner

Leader of the Future, Home Care

Leading Women in Care Awards · 2026

Awarded to our Director, Kiran Gill, for how Azure Care has grown without losing what made it outstanding in the first place. She’d rather we talked about the team, as she knows nothing is possible in home care without a team that support each other, so it’s worth saying this win was as much theirs as hers.

homecare.co.uk Top 20 Home Care Provider Award 2026, won by Azure Care

Winner

Top 20 Home Care Provider

homecare.co.uk · 2026

Given to the twenty highest-rated home care providers in the region, judged entirely on reviews left by the people receiving care and by their families. There’s no panel and no entry form. That’s exactly why it means something.

Also shortlisted

  • Home Care Provider of the Year · Great British Care Awards South East, 2025
  • Domiciliary Care Provider of the Year · National Care Awards, 2025
  • Home Care Provider of the Year · Home Care Awards, 2026
National Care Awards 2025 finalist, Domiciliary Care Provider of the YearHome Care Awards finalist 2026

There’ll be more. We’ll add them here as they come.

Our accreditations and memberships

Awards are judged once a year. Regulation and accreditation are what hold every single day, and they’re the things worth checking when you compare providers. Trust is earned, so here’s everything we’re registered with and what each one actually means in practice.

Azure Care is regulated by the Care Quality CommissionAzure Care is a Skills for Care memberAzure Care is a member of the Homecare AssociationAzure Care is Cyber Essentials certified
Care Quality CommissionThe CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. We’re fully registered with them, and at our most recent inspection in December 2025 we were rated Outstanding, their highest rating. We’re the only home care provider in Medway to hold it. Read the full report on the CQC website.
Skills for CareThe strategic workforce development body for adult social care in England. Membership means our training follows national frameworks rather than something we’ve invented ourselves, and our carers’ qualifications are recognised anywhere in the sector, not just here.
Homecare AssociationThe UK’s membership body for home care providers. Members sign up to a code of practice covering fair pay for carers, honest contracting and proper commissioning. It’s a commitment about how we run the business, not only how we deliver the care. More about the Association.
NHS Data Security and Protection ToolkitWe complete the DSPT every year. It’s the standard the NHS requires before it will share patient information with an organisation, and it’s what lets us work properly alongside district nurses, hospital discharge teams and GPs.
Cyber Essentials certifiedThe government-backed scheme for defending against the kinds of attack that make up the bulk of what’s actually out there. We were assessed across the whole organisation and certified in July 2026, and we’re reassessed every year. We hold care records, medication details and next of kin numbers, so how we look after our systems matters as much as how we lock the office door. More about the scheme.
Registered with the ICOEvery organisation that handles personal data has to register with the Information Commissioner’s Office and pay the data protection fee, so this one is a legal requirement rather than something we’ve earned. It’s worth listing because you can go and check it yourself. Care records hold some of the most sensitive information anyone keeps about a person, and we treat them that way. Look us up on the ICO register.
Reviewed on homecare.co.ukThe UK’s leading home care review site. Reviews are left by clients and their families and verified by homecare.co.uk. We can’t edit them and we can’t take them down. Ours are below.

What families say

Every review below was left on homecare.co.uk by someone receiving our care, or by their family. We can’t edit them, we can’t remove them, and we haven’t filtered them. The score updates itself as new reviews come in.

If we’ve cared for you or someone in your family, please consider leaving a review. It means a great deal to the carers, and it helps the next family deciding far more than anything we could write about ourselves. Leave a review here.

Any of this worth talking about?

Ratings and memberships tell you we’re doing things properly. A conversation tells you whether we’re right for your family. Ring us and ask us anything, including about the awards.

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