Fair care
Pay carers properly. Make care cost less.
Home care is set up so the person doing the caring gets the smallest share. We want to change that, and we need 20,000 people behind us to do it.
Help us reach 20,000 people before we launch.
Agencies take a big cut.
A family pays an agency at least £32.14 an hour. The carer who turns up gets about £13 of it: 40p of every pound.
Carers are underpaid, so they leave.
Average agency pay is about £13 an hour, below the Real Living Wage of £14.10. Add unpaid travel between visits and no say over hours, and good carers give up on care work.
Families pay more and get less.
Rushed visits, a different face at the door every week, and a bill that keeps going up.
Carers run their own care business.
They set their rate, choose their clients and keep 94p of every pound they charge. We do the invoices, insurance and paperwork for a 6% fee.
Families pay the carer's rate plus 6%.
On an example £25 hour that's £26.50, against at least £32.14 at an agency, and 89p of every pound reaches the carer.
The same carer, who stays.
Paid properly, with a say over their own work, and an update after every visit for the family.
Work it out for yourself: what a carer would keep · what care would cost
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Join the list.
It takes thirty seconds, with the form at the bottom of this page. Every carer and family on it brings opening day closer where they live.
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Share your link.
When you join you get your own link. Everyone who joins with it moves your area closer to opening.
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Tell the carers you know.
If a friend works for an agency, send them the earnings calculator. A minute is enough to see what they'd keep.
Add your name
Carers and families both. Tell us which you are and where.