GaryRB
UTC Legend
Sorry to hear your experience wasn't great, sadly in any walk of life or business, there are good and bad experiences.Previous governments (cant remember of which colour, and don’t really care) chose to effectively hand the social care sector into the hands of the free market rather than see it as a social duty. As a result, the owners of such establishments rake the money in whilst those who actually do the caring earn pitiful sums.
The people who owned the one where my dad was were actually a bunch of accountants And knew little or nothing about caring.
It’s quite clear a cap of £86k on care will make sod all difference to anybody that owns a house. In the three and a quarter years my dad was in the home, he paid out about £220k in fees. Fortunately he was in no state to understand what was happening as he would have been devastate. These owners will no forgo their earnings.
It’s quite clear the cost of accommodation, food, heat, light, days out etc will just go through the roof to make up for anything they might lose on care charges.
Smoke and mirrors to protect the really wealthy.
As for accountants, sadly, the best carers dont make the best business owners/operators. Its hard to accept in many sectors, but some of these business require accountants to run them in order to prevent runaway costs which would obviously be the risk is those actually 'doing the work ' made the difficult choices. It sucks, but thats how businesses operate. If it was in the public sector, there would still be someone needing to keep to a budget.
Finding care homes anywhere close to the weekly sum available when care is funded by Local Authority is getting more and more difficult, everyone wants the best care but it doesnt come cheap