May 10, 2007
Thursday, 10th May 2007
Greetings from Angela Gifford, Proprietor of Able Community Care, and welcome to the Able Newsflash, published by email every Thursday morning.
If you enjoy reading it please forward it to any other person who may also find it of interest.
Alternatively, they can subscribe directly for their own copy each week from our website: http://www.uk-care.com
Care News
In March 2007 UKHCA (The United Kingdom Home Care Association) published a Summary Paper: "An overview of the UK domiciliary care sector."The sixteen page summary is a useful read giving such information as;
Gross public expenditure on adult homecare in 2005/6 was an estimated 2.486 billion pounds and that local authourities recoup around 11% of their expenditure on homecare through fees.
An estimate of privately purchased homecare is about 1.3 million hours per week.
The average price for a weekday, daytime hour of care privately purchased from the independent sector in 2006 was estimated as £11.35 in a market survey from Laing and Buisson.
60% of independent providers are thought to rely on local authority purchase for more than three quarters of their business.
For a copy visit http://www.ukhca.co.uk
Second Hand Store
Able Community Care is offering a new service to people who have disability items they wish to get rid of and for people who would like to buy such items second hand.
The Second Hand Store is opening on our website in the next few weeks. For further details visit this page:
http://www.uk-care.com/second-hand-disability-equipment.html
In-House News
We are now seeking Live-in Support Workers with Child Protection Training and a clean driving licence. Salary £538.pw inc.+ travel. Call Sue Lamb on 01603 281914 or email Sue at Susanl@ablecommunitycare.comPotential clients have been visited this week in South Wales, Suffolk and Norfolk.
Client reviews have taken place in Norfolk and South Wales.
Two new clients have had care packages started;
- Norfolk, elderly lady suffering from memory loss and depression. Salary £536.00pw inc. of travel. Care Manager Ruth Divey
- Elderly lady in London with poor mobility. Salary £536.00pw inc. of travel. Care Manager Sam Clarke.
If you would like an information pack on the live-in carer service we provide, please email us at Ablemg@aol.com
Interesting Information
In Camden the Council pays £590.00 per week for a private care place whilst those provided by the council cost £866.00 per week.(Source: Camden Journal)
Across the UK at least 12,700 individuals from the new member states of the EU have taken jobs in social care.
(Source: Care and Health)
13% of British workers exceed the maximum 48 hour working week.
(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6623669.stm)
As our website now contains over 150 pages of content, most covering a fairly diverse range of subjects, we have added a Google search box towards the bottom of each page on our site.
Just type your keyword in the Google search box, select the radio button next to "www.uk-care.com", then click the search button.
At present, your search should look through 65 archived Able Newsflashes, 47 Question & Answer pages and 34 Gazettes ('Community Care Magazines').
We hope you have enjoyed reading this and "see you next week".
Best Wishes,
Angela Gifford, Proprietor
Able Community Care.
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