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Paying for it
— the human cost of cut-price care | | Author(s) | Ingrid Koehler |
| Corporate Author | Local Government Information Unit - LGIU; Mears Group |
| Publisher | Local Government Information Unit, London, 2017 |
| Pages | 36 pp |
| Source | http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/paying-for-it-the-hu... |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Costs [care] ; Management [care] ; Social Services Departments ; England. |
| Annotation | Receiving care at home should be the ideal way to enable people to remain in their own homes and maintain independence for as long as possible. This report examines the current state of the home care market in England. It looks at: the human side of a care market on the brink of failure with stories from across the care system; why care is priced so low; and how people in the system end up paying for cut-price care. It outlines how home care is commissioned and paid for, and why that is driving the current crisis. It details the costs to providers of delivering home care, and how a rate for a contact hour of care is calculated. It also looks at the scale and impact of provider failure, for both service users and staff providing and managing care. The report highlights the lack of money in the system, and the need for a radical reform in the way care is paid for and purchased. It makes recommendations for local authorities and central government on what they need to do to provide a proper level of funding for home care. The basis on which care is funded need to change from a time and task approach to a focus on outcomes and results. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170324003 B |
| Classmark | NH: QDC: QA: PF: 82 |
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