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From out of work to a career in care.

We operate across the full care workforce lifecycle, from getting people into paid care work through to keeping them there. One partner for the whole journey: helping people out of work into paid care roles, then helping them stay and build a career, all supported by Baton.

A We Are Care carer

Our delivery

Vacant posts across adult social care on an average day. The structural gap our pathways exist to close. Source: Skills for Care.

Annual cost of delayed hospital discharges. Source: NHS England. A significant share is linked to out-of-hospital capacity constraints, including social care and care home availability.

Young people not in education, employment or training: a pool of potential carers a supported route can reach. Source: ONS / DWP.

Annual turnover among frontline care workers. Close to a third move on from their role each year. Source: Skills for Care, State of the Adult Social Care Sector.

Individual carers placed into paid shifts since launch, cumulative across all provider partners.

How the pathway works

From first contact to a sustained role.

Each step is an outcome a funder can back, and we can evidence through Baton, our care workforce operating platform.

Trained and care-ready
01

Identify and engage

Reaching people outside work, before competition for roles starts.

02

Care-readiness

Hands-on preparation for the work, beyond a certificate.

Into a paid role
03

Real care-setting experience

Practice exposure in real care settings. Providers see participants in context. Participants find out whether care is right for them before they commit.

04

Supported entry

Safeguarding-conscious onboarding into the role, with real support around the person.

Supported to stay, 30/60/90 days in
05

First-job durability

Support and success measured at 30, 60 and 90 days in role.

06

Continuous support and learning

End-to-end visibility, early intervention where it's needed, and a feedback loop that refines the model.

Evidence at every step. Baton tracks each outcome from first contact to a sustained role, so funders see exactly what their investment delivers. Explore Baton

For funders and public-sector partners

Public value, measured.

Move one person from out of work into a paid care role and the value lands across several budgets at once: they come off benefits and start paying in, a care vacancy is filled, and the added capacity eases discharge pressure downstream. One programme, several public priorities, measured.

Underneath it runs Baton, live and proven in our own delivery. It connects staffing, compliance, care activity and risk into earlier action, and turns that into the outcomes evidence a funder needs. UK-sovereign, UK-hosted, built as the infrastructure a fragmented sector needs.

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Toby Gavin
Toby Gavin
Director

Spends his week across commissioning, government partners, and funded pathways — connecting strategic relationships with delivery on the ground.

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Care settings we serve

Government, integrated care systems and sector partners.

DHSC
Integrated care systems
Sector association
Workforce fund
All-party group

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Tell us about the workforce challenge at system level. We'll listen first, then walk through how we can help.