SATURDAY IS BUSINESS: Care is arriving – whether villages like it or not

Village residents are ageing in place longer, home care is flowing through the gates, and the neat line between “housing” and “care” is fading fast. 

Even where villages are not the registered provider, boards are discovering that coordinating or facilitating care brings governance consequences. The regulatory boundary may sit elsewhere – but reputational and strategic risk does not. 

As Sophie Ray, Chair of Warrigal, puts it: be very clear where care starts – and where it doesn’t. 

With Support at Home accelerating the shift, the question is no longer whether care creep is real – it’s whether boards are ready for it. 

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