FEATURE
Overcoming Challenges And Embracing Opportunities
Brendan Kelly, Managing Director at specialist residential care provider Heathcotes Group, reflects on a challenging year for the care sector and identifies some of the challenges and opportunities ahead.
When examining the past 12 months for the care sector, it’s impossible to ignore the funding crisis which has become part of the national conversation. Faced with cuts in their settlement from central government, local authorities throughout the UK have been attempting to rationalise their spending on health and social care. Inevitably, the sector has continued to feel the strain as a result.
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As well as having to work within more restrictive local authority budgets, care providers have been reviewing their operations and practices due to an increase in the cost of doing business. This is a sector-wide challenge following the introduction of the National Living Wage, and a new apprenticeship funding model which requires employers with a payroll of over £3million to pay an Apprenticeship Levy amounting to 0.5% of their payroll bill. This has
required many care providers to become increasingly lean, efficient and transparent. It has become more important than ever for care providers to ensure that they are able to justify their fees and deliver good outcomes for the people they support. All of this has taken place within a regulatory framework that appeared intent on dictating the size and design of services, rather than just regulating what care providers decide to build.
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