Accountants for children's care homes.
Accounting that understands what it takes to run a children's care home.
Salis Care handles fund accounting, shift-heavy payroll, Ofsted reporting, and the financial clarity that lets you focus on the young people in your care.
Trusted, faithful stewardship — from the Salis family of accountants.
The challenge
Running a care home is demanding. Your accounts shouldn't add to it.
Children's care homes have a financial profile unlike any other business. Most accountants learn that the hard way — after the filings, the payroll errors, and the missed funding deadlines. We start from care.
Ofsted & CQC reporting is a maze
Fund accounting, restricted funds, and per-child cost reporting that generic accountants simply don't understand.
Rota, sleep-in & NMW compliance
Complex payroll across shift patterns, sleep-ins, and the national minimum wage — mistakes are costly and common.
No clear view of per-placement profitability
You can't tell which placements actually make money once staff, property, and overheads are factored in.
Funding and rate reviews take too long
Local authority fee reviews and funding applications drag without clean, timely numbers behind them.
Services
Everything your care home needs, under one roof.
Care-specific bookkeeping
- Fund & restricted-fund accounting
- Per-child placement profitability tracking
- Bank, card & expense reconciliation
- Monthly management reporting
Payroll built for care homes
- Shift & rota-aware payroll
- Sleep-in pay & NMW compliance checks
- Pension auto-enrolment
- P60s, P45s & HMRC filings
Compliance & audit support
- Ofsted/CQC-ready financial reports
- Annual accounts for care providers
- Charity & non-profit fund reporting
- VAT & corporation tax
Growth & funding advisory
- Cash flow & fee-rate modelling
- Local authority funding applications
- New-home opening financial plans
- Board & investor reporting
How it works
From messy books to clear, compliant numbers — in three steps.
Discovery call
We learn your homes, your fee structure, and where the admin pain really sits.
Clean-up & setup
We sort the books, configure care-specific funds, and put payroll on solid footing.
Ongoing partnership
Monthly reporting, compliant filings, and advisory that keeps your homes growing.
Starting a children's care home? Get your Ofsted financial viability sorted.
Ofsted won't register a home they're not convinced is financially viable — and most founders hit this wall late, with numbers that don't stand up to scrutiny. Our Ofsted Registration Financial Viability Package gives you the forecasts, documentation, and setup you need to register with confidence and open on solid ground.
Book a discovery callFinancial viability forecast
A robust multi-year cash flow and profit projection demonstrating your home is financially sustainable — exactly what Ofsted and your funders want to see.
Start-up cost & funding plan
Property fit-out, staffing, and working capital modelled clearly, with a funding strategy covering local authority placements, grants, and investor capital.
Ofsted-ready financial documentation
The financial statements, policies, and supporting evidence prepared in the format Ofsted inspectors expect — so registration isn't held up by paperwork.
Go-live setup & handover
Care-specific bookkeeping, fund accounting, and payroll configured from day one, with a clean handover so you're compliant the moment you open your doors.
Built by care-sector specialists — so your viability case speaks Ofsted's language from the first draft.
Talk to usSee the dashboards we build for your home — live, right here.
This is the kind of monthly finance dashboard Salis Care builds for every client. Change the assumptions on the left and watch occupancy, staffing, debtors and cash respond together — the same numbers we'd review with you each month.
The ten-number snapshot
Review the measures together; no single KPI tells the whole story.
1 · Occupancy
75.0%
Monitor2 · Average weekly fee
£4,500
Per occupied bed3 · Revenue / available bed-week
£3,375
Capacity yield4 · Staffing cost / income
57.8%
Monitor5 · Agency / staffing
17.9%
Monitor6 · Staffing / occupied bed-week
£2,600
Unit cost7 · Contribution
£3,850/wk
Before overheads8 · Debtor days
48 days
Monitor9 · Cash runway
7.7 weeks
Monitor10 · Next 4 weeks net cash
£13,000
HealthyOperational pressure indicators
Illustrative reference ranges — prompts for discussion, not sector benchmarks.
Salis helps define the calculation consistently, reconcile the source data and explain the movement — not just display a percentage.
Four-week cash view
Expected receipts versus expected payments.
Illustrative commercial opportunity
Value of one additional occupied bed
£234,000
Indicative annual placement income at the current average weekly fee, before additional costs and subject to suitable placements and operating decisions.
What Salis adds
From figures to controlled action
Reliable monthly close
Placements, payroll, debtors and bank reconciled.
Home-level clarity
Consistent reporting by home and service line.
Forward cash visibility
Rolling forecast and clear action ownership.
Director conversation
What changed, why, and what happens next.
The practical difference
Without a finance control rhythm
- — Year-end figures arrive after decisions were needed
- — Staffing and agency movements are hard to explain
- — Home-level profitability remains unclear
- — Cash pressure is identified too late
Working with Salis Care
- Monthly performance linked to placements and staffing
- Payroll, rota and agency costs reviewed consistently
- Profitability and cash visible by home
- Risks, actions and owners documented each month
What question would your numbers make us ask?
Book a confidential initial conversation. Summary-level figures are enough.
Illustrative accounting and financial-management dashboard only. It is not legal, safeguarding, employment-law or regulatory advice and does not guarantee registration, inspection, funding, savings or business outcomes. Ranges shown are prompts for discussion.
Figures are illustrative and editable — this is a demonstration, not a real provider's data.
The Care Home Owner's Finance Handbook
A practical handbook covering the ten financial areas every children's care home owner must get right — from restricted funds and sleep-in pay to Ofsted readiness and cash flow. Plus a finance health checklist to benchmark your own home.
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The Care Home Owner's Finance Handbook
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The 10 numbers every children's-home owner should know each month
A practical guide to understanding occupancy, staffing, profitability and cash — before the year-end accounts arrive. Includes a monthly review rhythm and the warning patterns worth investigating.
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The 10 Numbers Guide
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FAQ
Care home accounting, answered.
Common questions from children's care home owners and registered providers about accounting, payroll, Ofsted viability and fees.
Yes. Salis Care is the dedicated care-home arm of Salis Accounting. We provide bookkeeping, payroll, tax and advisory services specifically for children's residential care homes and supported-living providers across England and Wales — including Ofsted-registered homes and local-authority-funded placements.
Let's talk about your homes.
Book a free, no-obligation discovery call. We'll listen to where the admin is hurting and show you exactly how Salis Care can take it off your plate.
07930 601486