The Fair Pay Agreement: An Autumn Briefing for Social Care Leaders
An exclusive 'invite only' eventDate: 1st October 2025
Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Place: Stream, The Garage, 7 Rathbone St, London W1T 1LY
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An exclusive ‘invite only’ event
This timely gathering will focus on the proposed Fair Pay Agreement (FPA), a key part of the Employment Rights Bill, and the wider financial implications, risks, and opportunities it presents for the care sector and the valued workforce. Attendees will hear directly from policy leaders, sector experts, and fellow finance professionals on the current shape of the FPA and what it could mean for our workforce, funding models, and longer-term sustainability.
Attendance Information
- Invitation is exclusive and non-transferable.
- Limited to 60 CFOs, FDs, and Board-Level Finance Leaders from England’s leading care providers.
- One place per organisation.
Programme
5:00 pm
Registration
5:30 pm
Derek Breingan
Head of Health & Social Care, Virgin Money
5:40 pm
Professor Martin Green OBE
Chief Executive, Care England
An insight into the FPA and its potential impact on care providers.
6:00 Pm
Alex Ramamurthy
VP, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, Stream
A perspective on the human and organisational impact of fair pay, and what it means for workforce wellbeing and retention.
6:20 pm
Rose Thomas-Willis
DHSC
The government’s plans and progress around the FPA at this critical policy moment.
6:40 PM
Panel Q&A:
A focused opportunity to engage directly with speakers on the financial strategies, challenges, and innovations affecting the sector.
7:00 PM
Networking
The evening will continue with informal networking, drinks, and food, under Chatham House rules, allowing for open, candid discussion among a peer group of senior financial leaders.
Speakers
Derek Breingan
Derek Breingan, Virgin Money
Derek has many years of UK multi banking experience and has been focussed on health & for social care sector for 20 years. Joining Clydesdale Bank in 2010 he was tasked with creating a dedicated specialist proposition and to develop the bank appetite to support the sector and to grow a strong lending portfolio. Derek now leads a team of 25 colleagues dedicated to lending in this sector and managing what is now the largest segment within the Virgin Money Business Bank at over £1.6bn.
With this wide knowledge of social care and real estate the team has financed well over 100 new build care home developments in the last 8 years. The portfolio also includes owner managed, sponsor led, corporates and dedicated sector real estate investment lending across a broad spectrum of sub sectors. Derek is an Ambassador for Championing Social Care, supports Barnardos and the Care Workers Charity.
Professor Martin Green OBE
Professor Martin Green OBE, Care England
Martin Green has had an extensive career in NGO development, both in the UK and internationally, and is the Chief Executive of Care England, the largest representative body for independent social care services in the UK. A Trustee of the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH), Vice President of The Care Workers Charity, Champion of The National Aids Trust and Commissioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
In 2013 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Social Care at Buckinghamshire New University.
In 2012, in his role as Department of Health and Social Care Independent Sector Dementia Champion, he led the development of the Dementia Care and Support Compact for The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia.
In 2008 he was named care personality of the year and was awarded an OBE for Services to Social Care in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. In 2019 he was presented with the Health Investor Outstanding Contribution Award.
Martin Green writes and broadcasts extensively on social care issues and is on the Editorial Board of Community Care Market News and Care Talk magazine.
Alex Ramamurthy
Alex Ramamurthy, Stream
Alex Ramamurthy is a committed entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in the tech startup ecosystem. He currently serves as the VP of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances at Stream, a role that leverages his deep understanding of technology and its application in creating meaningful social impact for over 3 million frontline workers.
Prior to his current position, Alex held key leadership roles as the former CEO of the Care Workers Charity, the former Chairman of the Care Innovation Hub, and former Founder/CEO of Mirthy, an age tech business. Through these roles, he has consistently demonstrated his passion for solving critical challenges within the social care sector.
Rose Thomas-Willis
Rose Thomas-Willis, DHSC
Rose is a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Health and Social care, and is leading the department’s work on establishing Fair Pay Agreements in the care sector. Rose began her civil service career in DWP in 2012, moved to Cabinet office in 2013, and has been in the Department of Health and Social Care since 2015. Over the last ten years, Rose has worked on a range of health and care policy areas, including: community pharmacy, NHS cyber security and data policy, NHS productivity and Efficiency, Social Care operational resilience including COVID response, Social Care funding, dementia, safeguarding and the Better Care Fund.
The Venue:
Stream HQ, The Garage, 7 Rathbone St, London, W1T 1LY
Finance Leaders in Care Network
This event will also mark the launch of a new invitation only Finance Leaders in Care Network, a private, cross-sector community offering ongoing online and in-person engagement exclusively for finance professionals in the sector.
RSVP
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Disclaimer:
The information you provide will be used for organising and catering this event and may be shared with Care England, Virgin Money, Wagestream, and our catering provider. Your details may also be used to contact you about the Fair Pay Agreement, and the creation of a Finance Leaders in Care Network. We will process your data in accordance with each organisation’s privacy policy:
– Care England
– Virgin Money
– Wagestream.