Care World helps families and independent, self-employed carers find each other. You browse real profiles, talk directly, and agree the care together — no agency in the middle, and carers keep everything they charge.
Both routes have their place. Here is how they differ, plainly.
Care World
Traditional agency
The rate
Set by the carer; agreed directly between you. Carers keep all of it.
Set by the agency, which takes a margin between what you pay and what the carer receives.
Choosing a carer
You browse, talk to carers directly, and choose for yourself.
The agency typically selects and assigns a carer for you.
Arranging care
You and the carer agree the schedule and the arrangement directly.
The agency schedules and manages the arrangement.
Employment
Carers are independent and self-employed, working for themselves.
Carers are usually employed or engaged by the agency.
Regulation
Care World is an introductory platform connecting independent carers and clients — it does not provide or manage care. It is not a CQC-registered provider.
Agencies providing regulated activities in England are registered with and inspected by the CQC.
Care in the UK today
Why this matters.
~5 million
people in England and Wales provide unpaid care.
Source: ONS, Census 2021
131,000
adult social care posts in England were vacant on an average day in 2023/24.
Source: Skills for Care, The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England, 2024
Chronicus
Care World’s in-product assistant can help you draft a posting or tidy your carer profile. It never chooses, ranks, or recommends carers — those decisions are always yours.
Find the right person, on your terms.
Browsing, shortlisting, posting, messaging and connecting are all free for families. Care World never charges a carer to find work or to be found. The only thing a carer can buy from us is a Library course, and nothing about a course changes where you appear or who sees you.
