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Managing working time in live-in care — A UKHCA position statement
Corporate Author	United Kingdom Home Care Association - UKHCA
Journal title	Homecarer, July 2007
Pages	4 page insert
Source	http://www.ukhca.co.uk/positionstatements.aspx
Annotation	UKHCA is the national representative association for member organisations providing care, including nursing care, to people in their own home. This position statement addresses live-in care services. UKHCA believes that homecare workers providing 'live-in' care services undertake their role on an "unmeasured work" basis for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998 and the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999. The Association is aware that a minority of personal injury solicitors argue that live-in care should be treated in the same way as shift work in residential settings. UKHCA believes that such an approach misinterprets the Regulations. Were this approach to be followed, it could make live-in care prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of self-funding service users and restrict both choice and capacity in the sector. UKHCA recommends that live-in care services should be categorised as "unmeasured work", managed with a "daily average hours" agreement. This interpretation should be clarified by Government and enforced by the courts. (KJ).
Accession Number	CPA-070814217 A
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