SOCIAL CARE

Care provider warns of sector collapse unless action is taken

The executive director of Mears Alan Long sets out what he believes is needed to save a domiciliary care sector in crisis:

Mears Care is one of the largest providers of domiciliary care in the UK and is one of the few which remain in stable financial health. Mears have set out five points which need an answer now to save the adult social care sector.

Over recent years Mears has taken agonising decisions to hand back a number of homecare contracts to local authorities, especially in the north of England.

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