BCA Partners

Leading industry experts working in partnership with the BCA to provide the best value support to our members. With their knowledge, expertise, and services they are on hand to support Bradford care providers deliver the highest quality of care.

Hempsons Social Care & Legal Advice

Hempsons is delighted to be a platinum partner of BCA and offer comprehensive and expert legal support to BCA members. With our deep understanding of your market and environment and our experience dealing with similar issues for others, we’re ready to help you get the right outcomes efficiently and effectively.

Areas of legal and regulatory advice

  • CQC
  • GDPR
  • Safeguarding
  • Employment
  • Property
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Charity law & dispute resolution

“We have found all our contacts at Hempsons to have been knowledgeable both about our sector and also about the legislative process. What we have also valued is the fact that Hempsons have been flexible, accessible and responsive and that we have access to senior solicitors and legal advisors when required.”
The Wilf Ward Family Trust

Please call 01423 724056 asking for the social care advice line, stating that you are a BCA member. Alternatively, visit www.hempsons.co.uk or email socialcare@hempsons.co.uk for assistance.

BCA Member
Hempsons offer

  • 25% of Hempsons standards rates
  • Free legal advice line
  • BCA members are eligible for a free 30-minute consultation with a Hempsons solicitor on any legal query connected to health and social care (limited to one topic per call).

JTM Service Ltd

We supply, install, service and repair commercial washing machines, tumble dryers, ironers and dishwashers, and we are go-to company for the Care sector.

At JTM Service we have 40 years’ experience and we are the go-to company for the supply, installation, service and repair of commercial laundry equipment and dishwashers. We have extensive experience supportingCare Homes and Nursing Homes and we understand the importance of having effective laundry and dishwashing equipment which deliver optimum performance and maximise hygiene and infection control, whilst minimising costs and ensuring compliance.

We provide an unrivalled service for service and repairs, and we supply and install the latest high-performance commercial washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers and ironers. We supply and service all makes and models, and we are proud to be the Approved Miele Professional Partner for the region.

If you want benefit from a great service, to save money, reduce downtime, improve infection control, ensure compliance, and work with a partner you can trust. Please visit www.jtmservice.co.uk for more information, email info@jtmservice.co.uk, or call 0113 2572221.

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JTM Services offer

  • 10% discount on the following:
  • Annual gas safety inspections
  • Planned preventative maintenance visits
  • Duct cleaning
  • Free site audit for hygiene and infection control

TL Dallas & Co Ltd

We supply, install, service and repair commercial washing machines, tumble dryers, ironers and dishwashers, and we are go-to company for the Care sector.

TL Dallas & Co Ltd (TL Dallas) is a Bradford based insurance broker with a specialist health and care team that will provide comprehensive business advice to all BCA members.

James Bright and Rico Young are the specialist team of health and care insurance experts from TL Dallas. They have been arranging insurance for the care sector for over 20 years and understand the unique challenges the care sector faces. With access to specialist markets, we can provide a wide range of insurance, risk management and employee benefits options, covering all segments of the industry, from care homes and nursing homes to domiciliary care providers and retirement villages.

Core Cover

  • Building and contents
  • Business interruption
  • Employers’ liability
  • Employment
  • Legal expenses
  • Loss of registration
  • Medical malpractice and abuse
  • Professional indemnity
  • Public liability
  • Residents’ effects
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  • Terrorism

Addition Cover

• Cyber • Employee benefits • Engineering inspection and breakdown • Financial services • Keyman insurance • Management liability • Motor and fleet • Pensions • Personal accident • Risk management and CQC claims consultancy service.

TL Dallas has an in-house claims consultancy service who will review and advise, as well as provide expert assistance throughout the life of a claim be it virtually or in person. Please visit www.tidallas.com for further information.

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TL Dallas & Co offer

  • We offer BCA members access to helpful webinars, newsletters and one to one expert advice on a variety of subjects and current affairs from ourselves together with a panel of external professionals around CQC guidance, risk management, health and safety, safeguarding, staff retention and recruitment, immigration, underinsurance, changes to sector legislation, business continuity planning and funding.

Person Centred Software

Person Centred Software offer a Connected Care platform which provides a suite of integrated solutions covering the full ecosystem of care management within social care.

Within the Connected Care platform, you can use one solution on its own, or you can use multiple that connect, all through a single device. Each area focuses on a particular part of the care ecosystem and when used together, provides a complete solution to improving outcomes for residents, improving the lives of care workers, and improving the overall efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance of a care setting.

Solutions include care planning, medication management (eMAR), wellbeing and activities & care home operations.

All products focused on digitalising care

  • mCare – Digital Care Planning
  • ATLAS eMAR
  • Oomph On-Demand Platform
  • Maintenance & Asset Management Tool
  • Digital Reception
  • Nursecall Messaging Service

Person Centred Software’s seamless integration philosophy also extends to solutions offered by our valued partners providing you greater flexibility and opportunity to connect all aspects of your care management.

Person Centred Software’s seamless integration philosophy also extends to solutions offered by our valued partners providing you greater flexibility and opportunity to connect all aspects of your care management.

Person Centred Software are on the assured suppliers list and are working with ICSs to help with funding. For more information visit www.personcentredsoftware.com.

BCA Member
Person Centred Software offer

  • 15% discount (not included with funding).

Citation

Whether you're starting a care business or growing one, at Citation you’ll find everything you need to help you get HR, Health & Safety and CQC compliance right. Visit our website for further information www.citation.co.uk.

You’re always busy, aren’t you? At Citation, they get that. They take away the headache and hassle of ticking off your must-have HR, health & safety and regulatory compliance obligations and tracking the latest legislation changes, so you can get back to work. Oh, and they’ll help you achieve best-practice standards at the same time. How?

  • 24/7 expert advice – Round the clock phone access to expert HR and Health & Safety professionals
  • Atlas, their smart compliance technology – Manage essential HR and Health& Safety tasks, training and documentation in one place
  • Independent on-sites support – Annual HR check-ins and site visits by local consultants
  • Advice so good, it’s guaranteed – Follow their advice, they’ll defend you against tribunal claims up to £1.5million a year
  • Documentation, sorted – Policies, risk assessments, contracts
  • CQC Pro – Ace your inspections and tick off your regulatory obligations with this handy online tool
  • Care mock inspections – Mock inspections by Citation’s professional team

BCA Member
Person Centred Software offer

  • As a BCA member, you can get all of this for less with exclusive discounted rates. Get in touch with Citation to organise a free audit of your business. Don’t forget to quote ‘Bradford Care Association’ when enquiring to access preferential rates.
  • Contact Citation to organise a free audit of your business. Don’t forget to quote ‘Bradford Care Association’ when enquiring to access preferential rates.

IT Wiser

We are a local, Bradford based IT & Cyber Essentials Certification Body that can ensure your business complies with UK legal cyber security requirements. Please visit our website for further information www.itwiser.co.uk.

BCA Member
IT Wiser offer

  • Free 30 minute ‘Teams’ meeting to discuss individual requirements.
  • 15% discount on the Cyber Essentials Plus certification fees.
  • 20% discount on our standard consultation fee rate.

We Care Communications

We Care Communications are an award winning telecoms provider that specialises in providing affordable devices to social care providers.

To get in touch and find out more, contact We Care Communications today and quote Bradford Care Association. Visit www.wecarecomms.com for more information or email Brett Norman at brett@wecarecomms.com for assistance.

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We Care Communications

  • BCA members are entitled to 'preferential rates' when you choose to partner with We Care Communications.

System Partners

The Care Workers' CharityCare Association Alliance Yorkshire & the HumberDigital Social CareSkills for CareBradford District and Craven Health and Care PartnershipCity of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.