Sara McKee discusses why she believes care homes should embrace a gig economy that encourages workers to be their own bosses, and explains how much could be learnt across the social care sector from the Uber business model
The dire financial situation of the UK’s care home sector due to the lack of funding for social care is a well worn strain being played across the country. Operators and sector pundits have now added the Living Wage to the list of reasons why care homes are failing, and they are failing.
Accountancy firm Moore Stephens claims that around one in eight care homes are at risk of becoming insolvent within the next three years,1while the Care Quality Commission (CQC) expressed concerns about the fragility of the adult social care market in its 2015/16 State of Care report.2
But what if we stopped playing the same old tune and started thinking differently? What if operators stopped blaming the Government and started looking at ways to change their business models to better suit a new era? After all, people’s lives are involved.
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