1. Care in the Home
Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce
The value of adult care, £87bn
Council funded (22%) Privately funded (12%)
Vol sector (3%) Informal care (63%)
THE COST OF CARE
state spend
on home care
£2.3 bn
less public
money on
care since
2010
-6%
Adults receiving care by age
65+ 18-64
Age profile of
care recipients
Need and unmet needs
Most people receiving state support for care are over
64. This age group has seen a significant reduction in
spend. Working age adults have seen very little cuts
to care spending.
There is substantial unmet need
for care. 30% of women and 22%
of men over the age of 65 need
help carrying out daily activities but
don't get it
1.3 million 43%
of people over 85 need
help carrying out daily
activites but receive no
funded care
Adults receiving state
support for care
Millions of workers
Current workorce 2025 workforce
2025 enhanced workforce
2025 workforce addressing unmet need
0 1 2 3 4
THE NEED FOR
CARE WORKERs
At the most generous
estimate, taking in
better care choices,
the level of unment
need, and the
demographic trends,
the number of care
workers will need to
more than double,
increasing by almost
2million by 2025.
More conservative
estimates indicate
we'll need to add
around a million over
the next decade.
Home Care Workers
of all care
workers part
time
53%
60%
On the front line
home care
workers on zero
hours contracts
685,000
home care
workers
30%
turnover rate,
almost 3X
national average
up to
219,000
paid less than
the min wage
Help us
We face a crisis of delivering care. Share your views on how this can
change to the Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce
Sources: NAO Overview of Adult Social Care, KIngsmill Review : Taking Care and The Future Care
Workforce