After months of issues with Mum which resulted in her being hospitalised last year we (my sister and I) had two options open to us either Mum moves to a care home or we try a live-in carer. We tried the latter option as Mum wanted to be at home. At the time Mum was due to move back home the agency appointed by Social Services didn't have a carer available and another lady was appointed. Thankfully the lady that was appointed has been amazing for Mum and we couldn't be more impressed and grateful to her with what she has done for Mum. The problem is that we keep getting told that she needs to go and we receive cv's for other carers which is really upsetting. The carer that we have also wishes to stay with Mum for as long as is possible as the agency she is engaged through keep trying to send her elsewhere I suspect because they have some challenging cases (we do accept that at some point Mum may need to move into a nursing home). We have funding for Mum's care although we do pay a top up. Do we have any say in this situation whatsoever? I have spoken to Mum's social worker and she is saying we need to accept this and there is nothing we can do. Is there anyway we could engage the carer directly with social services paying the money to us rather than the agency?? I would welcome any help with this as just when we thought things were settling down (we have our Dad with dementia who is in a care home too) we get hit with another challenge.