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The Caring Alliance Synergy membership offers extensive support for care providers and care workers: practical advice, business development, career growth, and quality assurance.
The membership site is open to care workers who want to enhance their knowledge and understanding of working ethically, safely, effectively, and with genuine care. We aim to be a supporting hand to new and experienced practitioners alike.
Choose the membership that suits you or your organisation: from individual membership for care workers to provider memberships designed for care businesses at every stage of growth.
Four membership options designed for different needs. No long term contract on any plan; cancel anytime.
For care workers and practitioners
No long term contract. Cancel anytime.
For care providers with up to 5 staff
No long term contract. Cancel anytime.
For care providers with 6 to 10 staff
No long term contract. Cancel anytime.
For established providers with 10+ staff
No long term contract. Cancel anytime.
All membership types also benefit from discounts on our range of premium services, including mentoring, coaching, web promotion, promotional materials, and tutorials. Services marked with ** require at least 3 months of membership to be eligible.
Everything included across all four membership types
Not sure which plan to choose? Here is a quick guide.
| Feature | Individual | Small Provider | Growing Provider | Grown Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Care workers and practitioners | Providers with up to 3 staff | Providers with 4 to 10 staff | Established providers with 10+ staff |
| Price | £8.99/month | £19.99/month | £29.99/month | £39.99/month |
| Team accounts | 1 | 3 | 6 to 10 | 11 to 30 |
| Online advice & guidance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CPD opportunities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Member discounts on training | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business development support | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compliance support (CQC, Ofsted) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quality assurance tools | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discounts on consultancy | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority support | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated account manager | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Policy and procedure review | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quarterly strategic reviews | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Bespoke compliance audits | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Annual compliance health check | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Same day response guarantee | – | – | – | ✓ |
All plans are no long term contract and can be cancelled at any time. Need help choosing? Contact us for a no obligation chat.
Both CQC's Regulation 18 (Staffing) and Ofsted's Regulation 33 require staff to undertake appropriate continuing professional development, not as an optional extra but as a standing duty on the provider to support it. See the Mentoring & Coaching page for the full regulation text. Membership's CPD access, guidance, and networking are a straightforward, ongoing way to meet that part of the requirement.
Not by name, there's no local authority regulation requiring membership of any particular scheme. Section 4 of the Care Act 2014 requires local authorities to run an information and advice service covering the choice of care providers available, a duty on the local authority, not you, but in practice local authority commissioning and quality frameworks tend to look for the same ongoing CPD and support evidence CQC and Ofsted require, which is exactly what membership helps you build.
Services marked with ** require at least 3 months of membership before you're eligible to use them, this applies to bespoke compliance audits, custom basic policy and procedure templates, and the basic annual compliance health check on the Grown Provider tier.
There's no long-term contract on any tier, so if your team grows past the account limit on your current plan, for example beyond 3 team members on Small Provider, moving up to Growing Provider is straightforward. Contact us directly to change tiers.
Team member accounts go from 3 up to 6 to 10, and Growing Provider adds a dedicated account manager and priority support, rather than dealing with general enquiries, plus quarterly compliance check-ins and a policy and procedure review service that Small Provider doesn't include.
Not directly, compliance support (covering CQC, Ofsted, and non-regulated services) starts at the Small Provider tier. Individual membership is built around personal development, CPD, qualifications, and career growth for a single care worker or practitioner rather than organisational compliance.