Care Company gone up £3.50 an hour!
- Thread starter TNJJ
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@TNJJ I bet carer not getting that. Dad is paying £20 an hour. Looked at some care agencies and they quoting £26-£30.
I'm cutting OH times from the beginning of Feb, OH has an hour in the evenings but it doesn't take that long so I've cut it to 3/4hr, doesn't save much, but as I always let the carers go 15-20 minutes early so OH may as well benefit from the saving. I've also dumped 4 calls throughout the week and got a private carer in instead for less than half the cost.
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Thats what I’m going to do. My daughter and I are taking back some of dads care. We have a cleaner every week now who sits with dad for a while. She will do tea. Then I need to find a carer for 3 days a week. Then I can get rid of the Care Company. Dad is not so much trouble or arguementative as before. He hasn’t got the strength.
I employed carers directly myself. Half the cost of an agency, and the carers were better paid and I think we had a better relationship. The legal/financial work was done by a specialist company that I found through my local carers’ centre. They charged very little for doing the admin and vetting cf to a care agency.
Hi, have you asked for a financial assessment? It could be you are entitled to financial support towards the costs. Our carers get less than £10 an hour working for our local council, it's disgraceful!