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Working in care in Bracknell Forest

A growing new town with a small care market: what does that mean for carers in Bracknell Forest?

Bracknell Forest is built around the new town of Bracknell with Crowthorne, Sandhurst, Binfield and Warfield around it. It has grown faster than the South East as a whole: between the 2011 and 2021 Censuses its headcount climbed by roughly a tenth, to roughly 124,600, and the median age of 39 is younger than the South East average.

Bracknell town holds most of the borough's care employers, and agencies sending carers into people's homes outnumber residential services by more than two to one; nursing homes are scarce. Day to day, then, the typical job here is a round of home visits on the town's estates and out to the villages.

Bracknell Forest Council sets out three ways people can arrange a personal assistant: employing one directly through a direct payment, using a self employed PA, or going through an agency. Its Direct Payment Team helps new employers with payroll, insurance, contracts and DBS checks, and can help advertise PA vacancies on Jobs Go Public, which is worth watching if you want to work for one person.

Health services are changing locally too. The new Bracknell Forest Centre for Health in the town centre now houses Frimley Health maternity services and a GP practice, with Berkshire Healthcare's community team due to follow. Bracknell and Wokingham College, part of Activate Learning, teaches health courses from Level 1 to the Adult Nursing T Level, where learners practise in a simulated ward and a mock flat set up for home care.

74% of the inspected care employers in Bracknell Forest are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 84% across the South East and below England as a whole (85%).