Bureaucracy grows as care homes close
There are two worlds of social care: on top is Quangoworld - the bloated, bullying, bureaucracy - and below is the real world where the work gets done. Barely a day passes without some new edict or initiative from the policy elite demanding the time and attention of care managers to be diverted from the job of running good basic services for the people who depend on them. Good care homes are closing, crushed and sucked dry by the weight of expensive and parasitic organisations.
 
For a care home to be financially viable and succeed, it must satisfy the demands of the policy elite and its hordes of attendant bureaucrats. The larger the home is, the more likely it is that it can afford the administrative burden. Small homes struggle.
 
Small care homes provide individuality, choice and variety, and some are closing because the managers put care before paperwork. Pressurised by the CQC, local authorities are increasingly reluctant to place residents in one star homes, even though they are officially deemed to be ³adequate² and some of them are very highly rated by residents and relatives.
 
Once these small homes are lost, we will never get them back.
 
The Association of Care Managers fights unnecessary bureaucracy, and promotes and supports the good management of CARE.

Source: The Association of Care Managers