Private providers have taken over from two Melbourne councils to provide in-home aged care despite lacking the staff to service all the additional clients. | carawaters
Private providers are failing to recruit staff for in-home aged care in Boroondara and the Mornington Peninsula.More than 160 council employees were made redundant in Boroondara and the Mornington Peninsula Shire when the councils stopped providing in-home aged care services last month but only a handful of workers took on roles with the private providers. Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s in-home aged care contract is worth $6.7 million a year.
One former aged care worker who was employed by the Boroondara council for eight years said she took a redundancy package rather than a role at Mecwacare. He said he was shocked neither the council nor the federal government, which is responsible for aged care, did due diligence on Mecwacare’s capacity to take on hundreds of additional clients.
Australian Services Union secretary Lisa Darmanin said former council aged care workers were reluctant to join private providers due to poor conditions.“This is the Uberisation of in-home aged care, with some providers not even paying workers for the time they spend driving from one elderly client to another,” she said.
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