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The quiet resilience of temporary care workers
Toby Gavin on the 118,000 temporary care workers covering 8% of filled posts: the long shifts, the unseen travel, and the integration few teams plan for.
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The Carer: 'Who Cares? We Care!' — ProvidersUnite Day of Action
Toby Gavin quoted in The Carer Digital (Issue 230) on the Westminster ProvidersUnite protest against NIC and minimum wage increases.
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Caring Times print: The quiet resilience of the temporary worker
Toby Gavin's piece re-placed in Caring Times print (February 2026 issue). A different audience, the same case for the integral role of temporary care workers.
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socialcare.today: The quiet resilience of temporary care workers
Toby Gavin's piece on the 118,000 temporary care workers integral to the system, placed in socialcare.today.
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socialcare.today: Rapid mobilisation — maintaining safety during care provider transitions
Toby Gavin's piece on provider acquisitions and compliance gaps, placed in socialcare.today.
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Rapid mobilisation: maintaining safety and stability during care provider transitions
Toby Gavin on a provider acquisition where 80% of the inherited agency workforce failed compliance checks, and what filling 550 care hours in days takes.
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Caring Times print: Fair value for care
Toby Gavin's argument for redistributing value across the care system, placed in Caring Times print (June 2025 issue).
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UK care sector at a crossroads: the reality of building a domestic workforce
Toby Gavin on the £12.82 salary threshold, 152,000 vacancies, and why cutting overseas recruitment without domestic infrastructure deepens the workforce crisis.
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Fair value in care: creating a sustainable ecosystem for all
Toby Gavin on the £60bn care economy, the broken markup model, and what a fair distribution of value looks like for carers, providers and recipients.
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Rethinking care economics: finding balance in a squeezed system
Toby Gavin on why the traditional 20–40% agency markup is out of step with the economic realities facing care providers, and what a fairer model looks like.
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We Are Care secures seed funding
Private investment validates the social enterprise model and expands capacity to supply pre-vetted, ethically-employed carers nationwide.
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Caring Times: We Are Care secures seed funding
Caring Times covers the We Are Care seed round: validation for the social enterprise model.
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Vicky-Marie Welfare joins as Director of Partnerships
Care sector specialist Vicky-Marie Welfare joins to accelerate growth across care groups and champion fair pay for healthcare workers.
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We Are Care launched to end 'transactional' care work culture
socialcare.today on the launch: Julian Humphreys on Real Living Wage and partnership-led staffing.
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We Are Care launched across the UK
Care Management Matters covers the We Are Care launch: Julian Humphreys on Real Living Wage commitment and changing transactional staffing.
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We Are Care launches across the UK
A new social enterprise care agency promising fairness in both directions: above Real Living Wage for every carer, transparent rates for every provider.
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