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How Many Staff Does Your Service Actually Need?

Enter your dependency levels and get an instant, evidence-based estimate of the care hours and full-time staff (FTE) your service requires — the same method inspectors expect you to be able to justify.

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Daytime Dependency

How many people you support in each dependency band, and the direct care hours each needs per day.

Night Cover

Waking or sleep-in staff required overnight.

This is a planning estimate based on a productive year of ~1,687 hours per full-time member of staff (after holiday, sickness and training cover). Your actual establishment should also reflect skill mix, 1:1 funding and local risk assessments.

Estimated staff required

18

full-time equivalent (FTE)

High dependency • Grade B
Direct care hours / day52.5 hrs
Day hours incl. indirect / day60.4 hrs
Night hours / day20.0 hrs
Total weekly hours563 hrs
Total monthly hours2,438 hrs
Total annual hours29,257 hrs

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