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I agree with you Lottie. I'm on £8 an hour. my clients are either 30 minutes or 45 minutes so it's £4 or £6. My 'area' is near where I live and within walking distance. They take on clients from Social Services and Private without a thought of who is actually going to give these people care. I work more than my contracted hours and I do help out when convenient to myself. The 'office boy' as I call him who does the rota informed me I had to go to this new client as there was no one else to go.! We constantly work short staffed as in so many places, I said he couldn't make me do something I didn't want to. Perhaps if they treated what staff they do have a little better and also when they take on people then they would stay! In staff hand book it says you will work as on rota and nothing in contract. I'm afraid my days of chasing around like a lunatic are long gone. I'm 52 years old, have had a mechanical A.V.R. am in good health,have lovely, regular clients and don't need the stress. I don't see why I should be driven out of a job I love doing.