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UKHCA Position Statements

We’ve designed these papers to give UKHCA members a concise and well-researched summary of some of the key aspects of modern social care.  Each paper has been endorsed by UKHCA’s Board members, so we believe they accurately reflect the opinion of UK homecare providers.

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UKHCA Position Statement: A Fair Price for Care

UKHCA sets-out the vital importance of homecare organisations receiving a fair price for the services they provide. In the first of our UKHCA Position Statements, we examine the background to the current state of the market and provide recommendations to local authority commissioners on adequate payment for the care they purchase.

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UKHCA Position Statement: Managing working time in live-in care

UKHCA believes that homecare workers providing "live-in" care services undertake their role on an "unmeasured work" basis for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998 and the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.

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UKHCA Position Statement: Short Care Episodes

In our second UKHCA Position Statement, we highlight the dangers of using 15-minute visits to provide personal care to increasingly dependent service users. In recommendations to local authority commissioners we state that short visits should only be used for monitoring and prompting activities and highlight the demotivating nature of these visits on service users and their careworkers.

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