Nobody should be making a profit from care. Period. If you see a Ltd behind the word care, alarm bells start to ring for me. If we have a National Health Service it follows that we should have a National Care Service but we don't we have a bitty service provided by private business people. Whilst their motives might be quite honourable they are in it to make a profit and this why I am proposing the idea of Care Co-operatives.
There are or have been too many sharks in the pool. We need to get the sharks out and provide for the tiddlers. Care staff should be on a guaranteed £10.00 an hour minimum wage enshrined in Labour and Trade Union Law because after all they might be looking after a Banker or Lawyer or Politician's elderly relatives. If a Council can afford to pay £15.00 an hour then £10.00 goes to the carer and the rest goes to overheads and mileage allowance. If a bank of care workers could be assisted to run a co-operative by agencies and not for profits then one or two can person the phones and do the admin while the others are out and about and then swop so the admin is done on a rota basis giving carers ownership of their team. These can be small scale or large scale. There is no place for business people or entrepreneurs in Care otherwise what legislation would there be to stop somebody opening a Care Home and a Funeral Directors right next door to each other.
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