The PocketCarer Guide to Creating Risk Assessments as a Self-Employed Carer

Free risk assessment Zoom workshop with PocketCarer PocketCarer is holding free Zoom workshops on how to understand what is required to create positive risk assessments for your clients.  As a self-employed carer, carrying out a risk assessment for all your clients is a top priority.  Regular risk assessments will allow you to identify potential hazards […]

What records should self-employed carers be keeping?

What records should self-employed carers be keeping? As a self-employed carer, it is essential that the records you keep for your clients are in order, in a safe place, and contain all relevant information.  This is important so that information is easily accessible should you be sharing the care of your client, or, handing over […]

How will the intended IR35 repeal affect self-employed carers?

In the Mini-Budget of September 2022, the UK government announced fundamental changes to IR35, starting April 2023, which will repeal the previous IR35 reforms of 2017 and 2021. HMRC’s off-payroll working rules determine whether a contractor or freelancer operating through their limited company is ‘genuinely’ self-employed for tax-paying purposes. Historically, the self-employed worked out their […]

The Growth of Self Employed Carers

Care professionals provide a vital role to thousands of people and their families across the UK. Providing a highly demanding and skilled service, working long and often unsociable hours, with a level of emotional investment matched by few other professions, there is no doubt that the care sector and those who work in it, play […]

8 tax deductible expenses for the self-employed carer

As a self-employed carer, you are allowed to claim back certain business expenses when it comes to filing your self-assessment tax returns.  It’s sometimes confusing to work out what is a deductible expense and what isn’t.  In this article, we will highlight 8 deductible business expenses for self-employed healthcare workers to help you when it […]

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