ℹ️ The Independent Commission on Adult Social Care aka The Casey Commission would like to know what you - as a care worker - think of the idea for a national register of all care workers in England.
In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland where national registers already exist, individual care workers pay an annual registration fee of around £30, although for many this cost is reimbursed via their employer or local authority.
✅ On the one hand, we are employed by thousands of private companies to do such highly-responsible roles that a national register may help ensure, for example, that there is a way to communicate important messages to all of us and to ensure consistent training. Registration may also help improve the status of care work.
❌ On the other hand, a register could make it more difficult for people to arrange their own care and that extra bit of admin and potential annual cost could put some people off doing care work.
🗣️Please add your views by filling in this short, anonymous form. Homecare Voices will pass this directly onto the team at the Casey Commission 👇
ℹ️ The Commission will present a set of recommendations about adult social care to the government in due course. It will then be up to the government to decide whether to implement some, none or all of the recommendations.
ℹ️ Homecare Voices is a not-for-profit network of current and former homecare workers throughout the UK. You can join the network here: https://www.homecarewg.org/