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News | 22 March 2019

The Care Sector is Evolving

Never before has the care sector been as large, complex or ready for change. Home care in particular has shifted in important ways in the last 10 years.

 

The effect that underlying and ongoing factors such as demographic changes, more people living longer with comorbidities, and higher employment rates are having on the care sector has been exacerbated by the political environment.

 

Reductions in Local Authority budgets, increases in the Living Wage and Workplace Pension mean that traditional corporate care providers contracting with local councils are struggling to make ends meet.

 

 

This has been coupled with unprecedented growth in quality care providers focused on providing premium care to private individuals in their own homes. Providers in this space are able to pay attractive, realistic wages to staff, and have time to support them to give good care.

 

With government soon to announce a Social Care Green Paper, the increasing use of technology and automation to aid efficiencies and effectiveness, and the increased recognition of the vital work of the sector plays in looking after the hundreds of thousands of people that need care on a daily basis, the care sector is an attractive place to start and run a meaningful, rewarding and successful business.

 

Franchising is an established method of ensuring systems and processes are effective and efficient, and that you have support from the Operations Team and rest of the network to provide a service that is reliable, safe and improves the lives of your local community.

 

Franchises also provide optimised websites such as the this for our offering of Home Care in Bournemouth or Home Care Reading. Working as part of a network of like-minded entrepreneurs with the same goals also helps motivate and give direction to other members of the network.