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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.
Happy reading ...
WHO IS MY BOSS?
𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀? The traditional home care company has a peculiar structure. Typically there is one registered manager. There...
Jan 10, 20221 min read
THE EFFECT THE NHS COULD HAVE ON SOCIAL CARE
£700 per shift? So an ambulance driver in the NHS is being offered £700 to do a New Year’s Eve shift. This is almost as much as home care...
Jan 3, 20221 min read
VACCINE, OR NOT?
Vaccine, or not? So the government has brought in regulations insisting that all social care staff are vaccinated. The rules have already...
Dec 20, 20211 min read
HOW CQC ASSESS AND MEASURE THE QUALITY OF HOME CARE.
So we’ve tried to identify what constitutes quality in home care, and now we’ll take a look at how CQC assess and measure that. CQC of...
Dec 13, 20211 min read
QUALITY IN THE HOME CARE INDUSTRY, CONTINUED.
So we talked about quality last week, in the eyes of the user, the relative, the regulator and the provider. There are some basic...
Dec 6, 20211 min read
WHAT IS QUALITY IN THE HOME CARE INDUSTRY.
What is quality in home care? If you ask CQC they will say SCREW i.e. Safe, Caring, Responsive, Effective and Well-led. If you ask a user...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
WHAT A JOB ADVERT SHOULD LOOK LIKE, CONTINUED ..
Following on from last week’s discussion of a “normal” contract for a home care worker, we need to look at how much such a contact would...
Nov 22, 20211 min read
WHAT A JOB ADVERT SHOULD LOOK LIKE .. IDEALLY!
So, if we had a clean sheet of paper, and were devising a job and package to attract and retain people as Home Care Support Assistants,...
Nov 15, 20211 min read
THE FORMER CHANCELLOR
The former Chancellor, Ed Balls, whose mother has dementia and has been in a care home for three years, has worked himself as a carer in...
Nov 9, 20211 min read
SUPPLY PROBLEMS IN HOME CARE
Recruitment in home care has probably never been more difficult. Driven by Brexit, rate inflation in other industries, residual fear of...
Nov 4, 20211 min read
SUPPLY PROBLEMS CONTINUED ..
With perfect timing, given our thoughts on recruitment last week, this week Skills for Care have published an excellent report into the...
Nov 4, 20211 min read
RECRUITMENT DIFFICULTIES
Gillian Keegan, the new Social Care Minister, was speaking on the Today programme this morning. Nick Robinson spoke about the recruitment...
Nov 4, 20211 min read
LOCAL AUTHORITY COMMISSIONING
Local authorities dominate the market for standard home care. An economist would call their power that of a “monopsony” i.e. a dominant...
Nov 4, 20211 min read
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