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Welcome to our blog page!
Here you will find topics that we realise are relevant and relatable to our industry, and the views that we continue to maintain from our own experiences and observations.
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ADULTS WAITING FOR SOCIAL CARE..
The number of adults waiting for social care in England has risen sharply to more than 500,000, according to estimates by social work...
Jun 8, 20221 min read
GUARANTEED HOURS (2)
Last week we looked at problems faced by home care staff caused by the fact that their work, shifts and therefore pay are not guaranteed....
May 27, 20221 min read
GUARANTEED HOURS (1)
If you work in Tesco, and your manager asks you to drive to another store to pick up something, you would be paid for your time...
May 25, 20222 min read
AN AGENDA
CQC’s first step in the inspection process is to send out a “PIR”, or Provider Information Return. Providers must complete and return...
May 13, 20221 min read
PRICE RISES!
So the annual jamboree of price rises is over for another year. One local authority told its providers of the price rise on the 8th April...
May 5, 20221 min read
BLOCK CONTRACTS, CONTINUED..
We spoke last week about block contracts, and their dangers, and of individual budgets. Once issued, local authorities have an...
Apr 29, 20221 min read
BLOCK CONTRACTS
Some local authorities are still favouring block contracts. These contracts award large numbers of hours to providers who win a tender....
Apr 22, 20221 min read
THE PRICE OF HOME CARE - CONTINUED.
A large authority has recently published a tender for home care. It is based in the south of England. We have traded with the local...
Apr 14, 20221 min read
CHARITABLE WORK
Wouldn’t it be a good idea if we could get all social care staff to contribute something in the way of charity. It might be odd to ask...
Apr 6, 20221 min read
RETROSPECTIVE DISCOUNTS
We have talked for some weeks about prices, and have made the assumption that the gross margin a business needs to make, to cover costs...
Mar 28, 20222 min read
FAIR COST OF CARE .. CONTINUED
As we discussed last week, the Government has announced an initiative called Fair Cost of Care, which is attempting to address the...
Mar 26, 20221 min read
LOCAL AUTHORITY PRICES
We are keeping a watchful eye on local authority price increases from April. This really matters! Home care needs to give substantial...
Mar 14, 20221 min read
OPENING HOME CARE TO FOREIGN STAFF
So the government has changed its mind and has now allowed, at least for the foreseeable, workers to come from overseas to be employed in...
Mar 9, 20221 min read
CARE FRIENDS APP
So we at Bloomsbury have been using a newish app called Care Friends for a few weeks now. The app works by encouraging existing staff to...
Feb 28, 20221 min read
POWER OF THE NHS
We might be in danger of receiving threats this week.. Nevertheless we'd like to discuss the power of the NHS (what’s new we hear you...
Feb 23, 20221 min read
HOME CARE VACCINES
So the government has back-tracked on its insistence that all NHS and social care staff be vaccinated by 1st April. What has driven this...
Feb 23, 20221 min read
BIG CORPORATE HOME CARE
Are we seeing the start of a big company takeover of home care? Certainly there has been significant corporate activity over the past few...
Feb 7, 20221 min read
IS THE WORM TURNING?
There are some signs that more money is, at last, going into home care. The sector has been under-funded for decades. As we have...
Feb 7, 20221 min read
JANUARY - THE MONTH FOR RECRUITMENT!
So we are well into January, perhaps the most miserable month of the year. Christmas is over, the weather is poor, and dry Januarys are...
Jan 24, 20221 min read
WHO IS MY BOSS (2)?
Ok, so last week we asked who, in a traditional home care office, is the support assistant’s boss. We struggled to identify someone who,...
Jan 17, 20221 min read
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