The Company has provided Care and support packages on behalf of NHS, Cornwall Council Adult Social Care and Private clients. All support is provided in the community and any facility that is required under the terms of the contractual obligations agreed in each Care plan. Carers Break CIC provides bespoke Care and support that reduces acute hospital admissions and facilitates safe hospital discharges into the community. The Company Supports adults of 18yrs and above by providing the following services: Social Outreach, Domestic support in the form of a ‘Home Help’ service, Palliative, end of life care and Live in Care. These services are provided over 24 hours all year round according to the specific care plans for each client. The services provided have a major impact not only on the increasing promotion of independence of each client, but also it impacts positively on the informal carers that support and represent each client such as family members and close friends or neighbours. Working with a 3rd party training provider we are providing best practice training provision for our own workforce and the wider sector. In the last 12 months we have increased our workforce from around 30 to 45 employees. This figure is also to increase again to closer to 50. As a direct result of our various initiatives to train, market and promote our services and employment opportunities we have increased the number of clients by more than 33% in that same time. This has a direct and positive impact on the ‘capacity ‘challenges faced by Adult Social care and the wider health services. The company now provides an average of 650 weekly hours of care and support which reflects an increase of approximately 30%. The workforce is now more stable, and we are enjoying a period of far less staff mobility leading to higher retention rates which currently buck the trend of the sector. Actively working with DWP, colleges, Schools and our Apprenticeship partner Dynamo Training we have successfully reduced the average age of our workforce to ensure a greater level of sustainability, and it is part of the wider solution to the sector in proving to be a highly effective pipeline of quality younger staff. Working with Dynamo Training (Apprenticeship provider) we are now establishing a higher qualified workforce by signing staff on to workplace Apprenticeships that are fully funded utilising the Levy system. We are currently working on several initiatives. Firstly, working with DWP and ‘Trusted Training’ we have co-designed a Fast track into Care course, which allows delegates from various Job Centres in the County to identify and nominate suitable candidates for consideration for a 5 day intensive course that covers both mandatory and best practice material, ‘real world’ shadowing opportunities and a guaranteed interview- All funded by DWP. Secondly, we are now Cornwall’s primary provider of ISF care packages working directly with Cornwall Council Adult Social Care ISF team. This programme is highly effective at fast tracking clients with learning difficulties, Neuro diverse and Mental health challenges by allowing us to co-design pre assessed support hours with the clients. It is proving very effective and sustainable as there is no delay in remittances for invoices supplied, flexible for the client and is already becoming increasingly popular with Social Workers and Social care practitioners by reducing their workload much quicker than other methods of commissioning previously adopted.

Our Stakeholders are Clients, Staff, NHS, Social Workers, Social Care practitioners, Age UK, Trusted Training, Dynamo Training, Proud to Care Cornwall, DWP, Seetec plus. We are in constant and regular contact with all the above major stakeholders and are currently in the process of re-designing stakeholder surveys which were run out to each stakeholder during the month of July 2025. Each survey captures their individual experience of receiving care and support and communicating with Carers Break, the employment experience, effectiveness and responsiveness and quality of working relationship with each stakeholder depending on their relationship with the organisation. During the financial year we have invested heavily in training, staff support, new contracts of employment, advertising, marketing and sponsorships. This continues to prove beneficial in promoting our services to increase our client base and has proven successful in supporting our recruitment drives. We anticipate considerable further positive growth on the 2024/25 position in2025/26. As part of my role as Company Director, I have sourced a Business Mentor who is based in another County and works in a different sector to give objectivity and impartiality. We meet Bi Monthly to discuss all aspects of the business and is currently working very well and allowed me to develop a detailed Business plan moving forward, a detailed Business continuity plan. We procure business support as required for HR and Finance. The HR relationship is working very well and has enabled us to reduce our HR costs from over £6k annually to a fraction of that amount. We are now working to establish much better financial oversight with our Accountancy partner by scheduling Monthly meetings. This will ensure more effective financial management in what is already a very busy business and which is growing substantially Month on Month. It is still our wish to create a diverse Consultative Council of Reference that includes all stakeholder representation. However, our first attempt in 2024 was unsuccessful as the personal nominated were generally unavailable to meet regularly. We will re-visit this during the next 6 months to ensure that each aspect of our organisations activities has a voice that will be heard and that will impact on the services we provide and will monitor the quality of all our activities.

The Directors remuneration included in the accounts is £40,758.

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