A guide for families in Banks who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
Banks is a village that has kept its own pace. The flat farmland running out towards the Ribble Estuary. The quiet of Ralph’s Wife’s Lane in the early morning. A community small enough that people still know their neighbours by name. These are not things people leave easily — and most older residents have no intention of leaving them at all.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Banks — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
Our free guides answer the questions most families ask first.
Banks has a quality that is distinct from the places around it. It is a farming and fishing community first, a village where the rhythms of the land and the estuary still shape daily life — the market gardens that gave the area its living for generations, the wide skies over Banks Marsh, a closeness between neighbours that a larger town cannot always sustain.
In a village like Banks, practical help often means getting to appointments — at the GP or Southport & Formby District General Hospital — help with a weekly shop in Southport, meals prepared at home, and regular company. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
We cover the whole of Banks, including Hundred End and the surrounding farmland, within PR9. If you are unsure whether your address falls within our coverage, please call us and we will confirm immediately.
Select Home Care Services was founded by senior carer Anita and registered nurses Natalie and Nicola. We provide home help and companionship. We are not CQC registered, and we do not provide personal care, nursing or medical treatment, or give medication — if that kind of help is needed, we will say so and point you to the right service.
£33 per hour. Every service. Holiday rates published.
No registration fees · Published prices · Minimum visit one hour · No long-term contract
If you have a question not answered here, please call us on 01704 333 188. We are always happy to talk without any pressure.
See All QuestionsThe first call is simply a conversation, with no obligation. We will listen carefully, ask the right questions, and give you an honest view of whether home help is likely to make a difference. If you go ahead, we visit to talk through what would help and agree everything in a simple written agreement.
Some families call having thought about it for a single day. Others have been sitting with the question for months. There is no wrong time to have the conversation.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so clearly — and do what we can to point you in the right direction.