The best foster carers and care workers come recommended. We make those referrals happen. At scale.

Care Friends empowers people in caring roles to refer others like them, turning trust into your most powerful, and scalable, recruitment tool.

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Why Care Friends?

Finding great care workers and foster carers is harder than ever.

Word of mouth is the most powerful way to recruit for these vital roles, but until now, it’s been incredibly difficult to scale. Personal recommendations have always had huge potential, yet they’ve only delivered a fraction of what they could.

Care Friends changes that.

Created by Neil Eastwood, author of Saving Social Care, Care Friends is the app that turns trusted referrals into your strongest recruitment channel, finally unlocking the full power of word-of-mouth hiring.
In recognition of its positive impact, Care Friends was awarded the prestigious King’s Award for Innovation in 2023.

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What our customers say…

“Care Friends is consistently delivery high quality candidates who share our company values. Our staff has referred 79 new starters via the app in less than a year, and the retention of these referrals remains significantly higher than other recruitment sources. Plus, our employees love it, and enjoy receiving cash rewards for this referrals. Who doesn't want to work amongst friends?”
Caren Burton
Caren BurtonHead of Innovation and Happiness, Majesticare
"We have been delighted and overwhelmed by the success of Care Friends since we launched in July. Over those three months, a whopping 42% of our new starters have come via the app, which is brilliant and the quality is excellent."
Dariusz Motyka
Dariusz MotykaManaging Director, Blue Angel Care
“It's no secret that employee referral produces high quality candidates who stay for longer - but the simple genius of the Care Friends app is in its ability to give immediate feedback and instant rewards to our CAREGiver team for their referral effort.”
John James
John JamesHome Instead, Fareham and Gospart
“The volume of activity since the first day of launch has astonished me. We were committed to the concept of Care Friends from the moment we saw it because we knew that an app would bring the age old concept of a staff referral to life and into the 21st century. We weren't expecting to have hired our first new recruit by the end of week.”
Jonathan Billington
Jonathan BillingtonBluebird Care, Wiltshire South
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Key benefits

For your care business

  • Increased employee referrals compared to a manual referral scheme
  • Access hidden talent in your local community
  • Empowers your staff to build your brand on social media
  • Recognise and reward staff performance with discretionary bonus points to improve engagement and retention
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For your care staff

  • Easier to refer friends direct from their phone in just 3 taps
  • Earn rewards for each step of the process, not just for successful hires
  • Stay motivated and engaged by earning extra bonus points for good performance
  • Easily keep track of how many points/cash they have earned and choose when to cash them in
  • Leaderboard makes referring fun and competitive

For your recruiter

  • Generate a regular flow of high quality candidates
  • Save significant admin time through automation
  • Save time and money with 50% less year one attrition of Care Friends referrals compared to sector average
  • Build trust with staff by not overlooking a referral payment
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Our supporters

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“We are very pleased to be partnering with such an innovative company as Care Friends. It is, quite simply, exactly what the care sector needs.”
Oonagh Smyth
Chief Executive, Skills for Care

Every feature. Simple pricing.

For organisations with up to 500 staff

£13.50+VAT
per employee per month.
Minimum order & set-up fee applies.
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