It reaches over 95% of all care and support provider organisations, in a sector with 1.6 million employees, helping and supporting adults with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, people with mental ill-health, and older people to live good quality, independent lives.
Prof Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Form is the current chair of the alliance.
[5] It warned that the sector was facing “a deepening crisis”[6] and the campaign attracted support from some local authorities.
[7] Throughout the COVID19 pandemic in 2020, the CPA played an integral part in highlighting the major challenges facing the sector, writing to the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 27 March warning: “Margins are very tight and the sector is working at full capacity, while also experiencing increasing levels of staff sickness.
[11] More recently, the CPA is driving an urgent call to address the devastating impact on care and support of the rises in employee National Insurance and other announcements made in the 2024 Autumn budget; its survey of more than 1,180 care and support providers in England found 22% of those asked said they were planning to close their businesses entirely and 57% will hand back existing contracts to local authorities or the NHS as a result of the rising costs.