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An overview of the domiciliary care market
- Author:
- HOLMES Jonathon
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 82
- Place of publication:
- Wallington
This document provides a detailed, retrospective overview of the domiciliary care market in the United Kingdom. It gives a broad overview of the domiciliary care market UK wide, before going into greater detail for each of the devolved nations. For each nation key statistics are provided covering: regulation; providers; people who use services; hours of care; eligibility; expenditure; intensity of care; direct payments; and workforce. The document shows that in the financial year 2013/14 in the UK: the total number of people receiving domiciliary care was 883,000; the total hours of domiciliary care delivered were 326 million; the total expenditure on domiciliary care was £5.1 billion; the total people receiving a direct payment were 166,000; the total people employed in the domiciliary care sector were 578,000; and the total number of registered locations providing domiciliary care was 9,826. (Edited publisher abstract)
Homecarer
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
The United Kingdom Home Care Association’s newsletter keeps members up-to-date with current issues in domiciliary care and the work of the UKHCA board.
Who cares in Scotland?: a profile of the independent sector home care workforce
- Author:
- MATTHEW Dinah
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Carshalton Beeches
Results of a survey concerning the skills, experience, hours of work, qualifications obtained, and training undertaken of home care workers in Scotland. Contents include: community care policies; hours of home care; the home care providers; the home care workers; recruitment; training and qualifications; characteristics of the workforce.
New access to criminal records
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, July 2001, p.5.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
New contractual and statutory requirements will oblige organisations to carry out checks on their employees or prospective employees who work, or may work, with vulnerable adults. Looks at how the scheme will operate.
Risks, hazards and consequences
- Author:
- REID Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, September 2000, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
An employer must assess the risk to those undertaking work on his behalf be they a student, voluntary worker, part-time or full-time worker. Presents an overview of the guidance given in the Approved Code of Practice for the Management of Health and Safety at work Regulations 1992 in relation to manual handling.
The moral maze of charging policies
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, July 2000, pp.1-2.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
Reports on the findings of the recently published report by the Audit Commission, 'Charging with Care', which describes the charging policies for home care services operated by local authorities.
Beyond the national induction programme
- Author:
- BOSTOCK-SMITH Gaby
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, May 2000, p.6.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
Discusses Progressive Awards for care workers.
Partnership potential in home care for elderly
- Author:
- HAWTHORN Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, May 2000, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
Looks at new model offering in home care for the elderly.
New Care Standards Bill changes the landscape
- Author:
- McCLIMONT Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, March 2000, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
Outlines the main points in the new Care Standards Bill.
Can local authorities meet the challenge?
- Author:
- MATTHEW Dinah
- Journal article citation:
- Homecarer, March 2000, p.7.
- Publisher:
- United Kingdom Home Care Association Ltd
Reports on some of the key findings of a review of Social Services Departments' use of management information. Focuses on areas of interest to providers that have contracts with Local Authorities to provide nursing home and residential care.