Your care staffing and development partner in UK social care
Cover today’s shifts.
Grow tomorrow’s care team.
Temporary and permanent care staffing from a partner that engages its own carers, verifies compliance before every shift, and answers the phone when pressure hits.
Phone or WhatsApp · a real person answers
Our delivery
Requests filled on or before start time. Rolling 12 months. Excludes provider-cancelled bookings and requests made less than 1 hour before start.
Every carer is interviewed and has prior care experience. DBS, Right-to-Work and mandatory training are verified before their first shift.
Carers who returned to the same setting within 3 months, on open-ended assignments. Excludes fixed-period cover and settings with no further eligible shifts.
Confirmed shift hours delivered across all provider partners, cumulative since launch.
Active across more than 70 distinct care settings: care homes, care groups, supported living, children's residential and home care.
Every carer we engage is paid fairly: transparent rates, no hidden fees, paid directly, with holiday pay included in your hourly rate and a workplace pension where eligible.
Client voices
What better staffing looks like in practice.
We Are Care added stabilisation to several of our services in a matter of days during an acquisition where staffing, medication safety, and rota continuity were a priority. Sarah Ghisoni · Agincare
We Are Care has delivered over 7,000 hours of care to the individuals we support, maintaining an excellent shift fulfilment rate of 99%. It represents consistent, uninterrupted care that allows the people we care for to maintain their routines, build meaningful relationships, and live with dignity and independence. Louise Grant · Dignus
Sound familiar?
A 6am sick call and the morning shift is short.
Agency spend is creeping up every month.
My permanent team is running on empty.
We've just taken on a new home and the rota's a mess.
Training and DBS renewals keep slipping through.
I just want someone who answers the phone.
How we help
Three ways to build safer, more consistent care.
Rota gaps, staff turnover and recruitment shortages have different causes, so they need more than cover. Staffing is usually where we start a partnership. The work that follows is about needing cover less often.
Staffing
Reliable cover, temporary or permanent.
Cover for sickness, holidays, short-notice pressure and hard-to-fill shifts, including new homes and acquisitions. Permanent recruitment when you need it.
Cover your gaps
Retention
Keep care staff trained, compliant and engaged.
Keep good carers for longer, with the training, development and recognition that make them want to stay.
Trained staff, lower turnover
Pathways
Routes into care for people out of work, closing the vacancy gap.
Funded routes into care for young people and adults returning to work, with selection, training, work experience and a first placement. Higher completion, and first jobs that stick.
Funded routes, jobs that stickWhy providers choose us
Cover you can trust, from people you can reach.
WHO WE HELP
Supporting everyone involved in safer, better-staffed care.
Care providers and groups
Keep your services safely staffed.
A staffing and development partner that backs providers with what they need. Compliant carers, the right staffing model for the role, and the stability that comes from carers who know the work first-hand.
- Temporary
- Permanent
- Assisted rota management
COMMISSIONERS
Stable care teams, across your area.
Resilience in the care you commission, when discharge or capacity pressure hits. Carers directly engaged, fairly paid and compliance-verified before each shift. Visibility across providers so issues surface before they escalate.
Stabilise your provision
GOVERNMENT & FUNDERS
A pipeline that delivers staffing capacity.
One team across the whole route into care: training, work experience, interview support and a first job, with conversion data at every step.
Partner on the pipelineWhy we exist
It began with one family’s experience of care.
We Are Care started in one founder’s family, caring for a relative with dementia. That experience of the system from the inside is what the company was built on.
Our mission is to improve care across the UK, starting with the people who provide it.
Today that means helping people into care work and supporting them to build a career in it. Through Baton and Care intelligence, we also give providers the tools and insight to run better care.
How we operate
What guides us
Long-term strategic partnerships are how we work best. Short-term engagements are often where those start. The deeper the partnership, the more we can improve daily care together and reshape it structurally over time.
Care improves when the whole chain works together. Carers, providers, commissioners and funders each hold distinct roles. The closer those roles connect, the better the result.
We start with the person receiving care, and work back from there, from small improvements to structural change across staffing, retention, pathways and Baton.
Why carers choose us
A care team who knows you.
Fair pay, transparent rates, and a coordinator who remembers your name. A real career path in care, with training that goes beyond the mandatory baseline.
Care intelligence
The latest from Care intelligence.
News, analysis and resources for UK social care.
How much does a care home cost in England?
In England, whether a care home resident pays the full fee or gets help from their council depends on their savings and other capital: above £23,250 they pay in full, and below it the council may help after a means test.
The Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care in England, explained
The first Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care in England has £500 million for 2028/29, but whether that money reaches care workers depends on council fees that already fall short in home care.
Money, not need, is shaping England's care market, says Independent Care Group
The Care Quality Commission found care homes in England are consolidating while home care fragments, and Independent Care Group Honorary President Mike Padgham blames fees that do not cover the cost of care.
Dementia diagnoses in England reach a record 523,081
A record 523,081 people in England now have a formal dementia diagnosis, NHS England figures show, and Alzheimer's Society argues the next test should be how long people wait for one.
Get in touch
Let’s talk.
Tell us about your service and where you need support. We’ll listen first, then walk through how we can help.