This page exists so that you are not left guessing. We are not taking bookings, we are not operating a waiting list, and we are not going to imply otherwise while the position is unresolved.
Because the alternative is worse. A great many care websites describe services that are aspirational, "launching soon", or available in theory but not in the area you live in. By the time you find out, you have spent a week you did not have.
Oakline Home Care is a genuine intention — a regulated home care service delivered by our own staff, in people's own homes, in South Yorkshire. It is not a marketing line. But intention is not registration, and regulated personal care can only be provided by an organisation registered to do it. Until that is in place, the only honest thing this page can say is: not yet.
Described in future tense, deliberately. A home care service built on the same things the rest of the group is built on: continuity of the people who turn up, staff who are properly checked and briefed, administration that holds up under inspection, and a plain answer when we cannot do something.
If and when it becomes available, it will sit alongside our personalised care support rather than replacing it. Some people want to employ someone directly and be in charge of it; others want a provider to hold that responsibility. Both are legitimate, and they suit different situations.
Claim a registration we do not hold. Display a CQC rating or logo. Suggest that registration is pending, imminent or a formality. Accept a booking, a deposit or a waiting list place for a service that does not exist. Describe ourselves as a home care provider in the present tense.
If you ever see any of those things here, something has gone wrong and we would want to know about it.
None of this depends on the home care division. All of it is available now.
We can help you recruit and employ a Personal Assistant, and take on the payroll, contracts, records and employment administration that comes with it. That is available now.
Personalised care supportYou need a provider registered with the Care Quality Commission. Your local authority can tell you who operates in your area, and the CQC register lists registered providers with their current ratings. We are happy to explain how to look, but we cannot be that provider.
Questions and answersAsk us. Working out whether your situation points towards employing someone directly or commissioning a registered provider is exactly the kind of question worth a phone call, and it costs you nothing.
Talk to usTell us the situation and we will tell you which route fits — including when the right answer is a registered provider rather than anything Oakline offers.