CAREDEMY VS FLEXEBEE: QUICK COMPARISON

The Biggest Difference in 2026: Flexebee Is Changing

Before comparing course numbers or pricing, prospective customers should understand what has changed.

Flexebee currently states that it is joining forces with Careskills Academy, a trading name of iHasco Ltd.

For existing Flexebee customers, the company states that nothing has changed immediately: customers can continue logging into the Flexebee platform and accessing their courses.

For new care organisations, however, the Flexebee website now directs customers towards Careskills Academy.

This means a care provider comparing Caredemy with Flexebee in 2026 should not assume that the package historically sold under the Flexebee brand is necessarily the package it would receive as a new customer.

Ask for a current quotation and establish:

• which platform will be supplied;
• exactly which courses are included;
• whether webinars or face-to-face training are included;
• current Care Certificate content;
• LMS functionality;
• learner limits;
• contract length; and
• the total annual price.

Caredemy, by comparison, continues to sell its courses and Team Training service directly under the Caredemy brand.

1. Number and Range of Courses

Caredemy currently advertises access to 250+ online courses.

Its catalogue extends beyond core mandatory care training into areas including safeguarding, medication, moving and handling, clinical skills, primary care, mental health, first aid, food safety, management, education, childcare and wider workplace training.

This can be useful for organisations with employees performing different roles because a larger library can reduce the need to purchase specialist courses from separate providers.

Flexebee currently advertises 200+ courses through its subscription proposition.

Its current website also emphasises the broader range available through Careskills Academy following the integration.

The important distinction is not simply 250+ versus 200+.

Employers should compare their actual training matrix against each catalogue. Twenty additional courses have little value if none are relevant to the workforce, while one specialist course that prevents an organisation needing a second supplier may be highly valuable.

Practical comparison: Caredemy currently advertises the larger online course library, while Flexebee/Careskills has a significant catalogue combined with a broader range of delivery methods.

2. Care-Sector Specialisation

Both providers have substantial health and social care training offerings.

Caredemy specialises heavily in healthcare and social care training, although its catalogue also covers childcare, education and general workplace subjects.

Courses include core topics such as:

• safeguarding;
• infection prevention and control;
• moving and handling;
• medication;
• dementia;
• mental capacity;
• food safety;
• health and safety;
• basic life support;
• Care Certificate training; and
• specialist clinical and care subjects.

Flexebee has similarly developed an extensive care-training catalogue, with courses covering subjects such as safeguarding, infection control, oral health, nutrition, pressure sores, diabetes, oxygen therapy and cannulation.

Its transition to Careskills Academy further reinforces the care-specific side of its proposition.

For most care homes, domiciliary care providers and supported living organisations, therefore, both propositions cover substantially more than basic generic workplace compliance.

3. CPD Accreditation

Both providers advertise CPD-accredited training.

Caredemy’s current catalogue describes its online courses as CPD accredited, and completion certificates are available to learners after successfully completing relevant assessments.

Flexebee also describes numerous individual courses as CPD accredited and states that its courses meet accepted Continuing Professional Development guidelines.

CPD accreditation should not, however, be treated as evidence that an employee has demonstrated practical competence.

Subjects such as moving and handling, basic life support or practical clinical procedures may require additional practical instruction, observation or competency assessment depending on the employee’s duties and the employer’s requirements.

The employer remains responsible for ensuring that training is appropriate to the role and that workers are competent to carry out their duties.

4. Skills for Care Endorsement

This area requires careful terminology in 2026.

Historically, Skills for Care operated an Endorsed Provider scheme. Caredemy has documentary evidence showing that it held Skills for Care Endorsed Provider status from July 2022 to July 2023 and again from July 2023 to July 2024.

Skills for Care’s quality-assurance arrangements have subsequently changed. The current Quality Assured Care Learning Service operates differently from the former provider-level endorsement scheme.

Therefore, buyers should not interpret historic provider endorsement as meaning that every current course has individually been approved by Skills for Care.

Flexebee’s current course pages also make Skills for Care endorsement claims, while Careskills Academy advertises itself as Skills for Care endorsed.

The sensible procurement approach in 2026 is to ask exactly what any Skills for Care badge or statement refers to and verify current course-level quality assurance where this matters to your organisation.

5. Care Certificate Training

This is an important area for care providers recruiting new employees.

Caredemy’s Care Certificate course currently covers the 16 Care Certificate standards.

The standards were updated in March 2025, adding Standard 16 covering awareness of learning disability and autism.

Caredemy also explicitly distinguishes between completing online knowledge training and achieving the full Care Certificate.

Its programme includes resources intended to support employer assessment and sign-off, but practical competence still needs to be demonstrated and appropriately assessed in the workplace where required.

This is important because the Care Certificate is not simply an e-learning certificate.

Flexebee has historically offered Care Certificate training, and the current care-training route through Careskills Academy also provides a Care Certificate programme.

However, some publicly accessible Careskills pages reviewed during this comparison still refer to the previous 15-standard Care Certificate.

New buyers should therefore specifically confirm that the programme being supplied reflects the current 16 standards, rather than relying on older website copy.

That is a due-diligence question worth asking any training provider where older Care Certificate materials remain online.

6. Individual Course Pricing

Caredemy has relatively transparent individual pricing.

Standard individual courses are generally advertised at:

£15 + VAT per course

Volume purchasing can reduce this considerably. Current published Caredemy bulk course rates include:

Prices exclude VAT and should be checked before ordering.

Flexebee’s current proposition is much more quotation-led. Many course pages ask organisations to call, message or request a quotation rather than presenting a directly comparable public price.

That means it would be misleading to claim that one provider is universally cheaper based on current public Flexebee information.

For new customers, obtain a Careskills Academy quotation and compare the total annual cost against the equivalent Caredemy option.

7. Team Pricing

Caredemy publishes indicative Team Training subscription pricing.

Current examples are:

The Team Training proposition combines course access with LMS and compliance-management functionality.

Flexebee/Careskills operates more heavily through bespoke quotations, so an exact like-for-like public pricing comparison is not possible without obtaining a current quotation.

This makes total-cost comparison particularly important.

Do not compare only the headline learner licence.

Compare:

Annual licence cost + Care Certificate costs + specialist courses + LMS charges + setup fees + additional delivery costs + replacement licences = effective annual training cost.

8. Worked Pricing Examples

Consider a care provider with 25 employees, each needing 10 courses during the year.

That creates:

25 × 10 = 250 course enrolments

At Caredemy’s published 250+ PAYG rate:

250 × £3.99 = £997.50 + VAT

Alternatively, using Caredemy’s published Team Training rate:

25 × £5 × 12 = £1,500 + VAT per year

In this example, PAYG has the lower direct course cost.

However, the organisation should consider whether it values unlimited course availability, learner replacement and the wider Team Training functionality sufficiently to justify the difference.

Now consider 50 employees completing 10 courses each:

50 × 10 = 500 enrolments

Caredemy PAYG:

500 × £2.49 = £1,245 + VAT

Caredemy Team Training:

50 × £4 × 12 = £2,400 + VAT

Again, high-volume PAYG is cheaper on course cost alone.

But if employees require considerably more training, staff turnover is high or the organisation wants unrestricted access to specialist courses throughout the year, the subscription model may become more attractive.

Because equivalent current Flexebee pricing is not transparently published, a responsible comparison cannot insert an assumed Flexebee figure into these calculations.

Obtain the current Flexebee/Careskills quotation and put it alongside these benchmarks.

9. Unlimited Training

Both providers offer or advertise unlimited-access models.

Caredemy offers unlimited access for individual learners and Team Training options for organisations.

Its team proposition gives organisations access to its wider course library rather than requiring an additional payment every time a subscribed learner takes another included course.

Flexebee also advertises unlimited training.

A notable difference is that Flexebee has promoted e-learning and webinar training within its unlimited proposition.

For an organisation that actively uses live webinars, that could materially affect the value calculation.

Caredemy’s proposition is more strongly centred around self-paced online learning.

Therefore, organisations should compare not only the number of courses but also how they want training delivered.

10. Learning Management System

Both providers offer an LMS.

Caredemy’s employer platform supports functions including:

• learner management;
• course assignment;
• progress monitoring;
• compliance tracking;
• certificate management;
• reporting;
• bulk certificates;
• automated training reminders; and
• multi-branch reporting.

Flexebee also promotes an LMS designed to simplify staff training administration and monitor training performance.

The current Careskills proposition includes an LMS with a colour-coded training matrix, staff progress monitoring, reporting and course reminders.

For organisations moving away from spreadsheets, both providers therefore offer considerably more than a simple course-purchasing website.

11. Certificates

Both providers provide digital certificates following successful completion of relevant online courses.

Caredemy includes downloadable certificates and provides bulk certificate-management functionality for employers.

Flexebee allows learners to download certificates or access them later through the portal.

For managers preparing for audits or inspections, central certificate access can be considerably more useful than relying on individual employees to forward PDF certificates manually.

12. Automated Training Reminders

Caredemy advertises automated training reminders as part of its employer proposition.

This reduces the administrative work involved in monitoring refresher dates and contacting staff manually.

The Flexebee/Careskills proposition also includes course-reminder functionality within its LMS.

For larger care organisations, this can be an important feature because the administrative cost of chasing expired or overdue training can exceed relatively small differences in course pricing.

13. Reporting and Compliance Management

Caredemy provides compliance and reporting tools designed to help employers monitor training status and produce records for audits and inspections.

Features advertised include progress monitoring, compliance reporting, bulk certificates and a colour-coded reporting matrix.

Flexebee similarly promotes staff progress tracking and LMS reporting.

Careskills Academy’s LMS specifically advertises a colour-coded training matrix, formal-assessment monitoring and reporting intended to simplify compliance administration.

Both therefore address one of the most important requirements for organisational buyers: being able to demonstrate what training employees have completed.

14. Multiple Locations

Caredemy specifically advertises multi-branch reporting.

This is useful for care groups operating several homes, supported living services, branches or domiciliary care locations because senior management can maintain oversight while still separating local training records.

Flexebee provides organisational LMS functionality, but organisations requiring complex multi-site hierarchies should establish exactly how their account will be configured under the current Flexebee/Careskills platform.

Ask whether managers can be restricted to individual locations, whether central management can see all sites and whether reports can be generated by branch.

15. Learner Replacements

This is one of the more distinctive features in Caredemy’s Team Training proposition.

Caredemy advertises free learner replacements.

That can matter in social care, where workforce turnover can make nominal per-user pricing misleading.

Suppose an organisation purchases 50 annual licences and 10 employees leave during the year.

If licences cannot be transferred, the organisation could effectively have to pay for 60 people to maintain a 50-person workforce.

A replacement policy reduces this potential turnover cost.

We did not identify an equivalent explicit free learner-replacement commitment on the current public Flexebee pages reviewed.

That does not necessarily mean replacement licences cannot be negotiated. Organisations should ask Flexebee/Careskills directly when obtaining a quotation.

16. Customer Support

Both providers advertise customer support for organisational users.

Caredemy provides learner support and additional employer/manager support within its team proposition.

Flexebee course pages advertise support from an account manager and support team.

For larger implementations, ask both providers about:

• LMS onboarding;
• migration from an existing provider;
• bulk learner uploads;
• account-manager access;
• report configuration;
• technical support response times; and
• help setting up training matrices.

Support quality can materially affect implementation time even where two platforms appear similar on paper.

17. Delivery Methods

This is one area where the providers have distinctly different propositions.

Caredemy is primarily an online e-learning provider.

Its model is particularly suited to organisations wanting employees to complete training independently, on demand and around shifts.

Flexebee/Careskills offers a broader mix including:

• e-learning;
• webinars;
• face-to-face training; and
• Train the Trainer programmes.

An employer wanting one supplier for both online knowledge training and live training may therefore find this delivery model particularly useful.

Conversely, an organisation deliberately standardising around scalable self-paced e-learning may place less value on those additional delivery formats.

When Flexebee May Be The Better Choice

Flexebee — or, for new customers, the developing Careskills Academy proposition — may suit organisations that place a high value on multiple training delivery methods.

It is particularly worth considering where an organisation wants a combination of e-learning, live webinars, face-to-face training and Train the Trainer programmes rather than predominantly self-paced online courses.

Existing Flexebee customers may also have a strong reason to remain with the platform if their LMS, reporting structure and employee records are already established and working effectively.

Organisations considering it should nevertheless obtain an up-to-date quotation and clarify what the Flexebee-to-Careskills transition means for their contract, platform, course library and future support.

When Caredemy May Be The Better Choice

Caredemy may suit organisations looking for a broad self-paced online library combined with flexible purchasing models.

Its current proposition is particularly relevant where employers want:

• 250+ online courses;
• straightforward individual course purchasing;
• substantial PAYG volume discounts;
• unlimited/team options;
• current 16-standard Care Certificate training;
• LMS and compliance reporting;
• automated reminders;
• multi-branch reporting;
• bulk certificate management; and
• free learner replacements on Team Training.

The ability to choose between PAYG and subscription-based training can also be useful.

An organisation requiring relatively few courses per employee may find bulk PAYG more economical, while one with substantial ongoing learning requirements may prefer a team subscription.

Final Verdict: Caredemy vs Flexebee

There is no single provider that will be the right choice for every organisation.

For an individual learner who wants to purchase a specific online course immediately, Caredemy’s transparent online purchasing and £15 standard individual pricing make the buying process straightforward.

For a small care organisation requiring a limited number of courses, Caredemy’s PAYG volume discounts deserve comparison with any Flexebee/Careskills quotation before committing to an annual subscription.

For a care provider requiring extensive online training throughout the year, compare the full annual subscription costs, course coverage and LMS functionality rather than individual course prices.

For a multi-site care organisation, reporting hierarchy, branch-level administration, learner replacement and central certificate management become particularly important. Caredemy specifically advertises multi-branch reporting and free learner replacements, while organisations should request a demonstration of equivalent requirements when considering Flexebee/Careskills.

For an organisation wanting webinars, face-to-face learning or Train the Trainer alongside e-learning, Flexebee/Careskills has a broader delivery proposition and should be considered on that basis.

For employers prioritising a large self-paced online library, flexible PAYG and subscription purchasing, current Care Certificate content and workforce-turnover flexibility, Caredemy provides a strong combination of training and LMS functionality.

The key procurement question is therefore not simply:

“Which provider has the cheapest course?”

It is:

“Which provider supplies the courses, delivery methods, management tools and support our organisation actually needs at the lowest sustainable total cost?”

That is the comparison care providers should make before signing an annual training agreement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Caredemy cheaper than Flexebee?

There is no universal answer because Flexebee’s current organisational pricing is primarily quotation-based. Caredemy publishes standard individual courses at around £15 + VAT and substantial volume discounts, alongside team subscriptions. Organisations should obtain a current Flexebee/Careskills quotation and compare the full annual cost.

Does Caredemy have more courses than Flexebee?

Caredemy currently advertises 250+ online courses. Flexebee advertises access to 200+ courses within its subscription proposition. The more important consideration is whether the library contains the specific mandatory, specialist and role-specific courses your workforce requires.

Is Flexebee still operating in 2026?

Yes, but the business is changing. Flexebee states that it is joining Careskills Academy. Existing Flexebee customers can continue accessing their courses, while new care organisations are currently directed towards Careskills Academy.

Does Caredemy offer a Care Certificate course?

Yes. Caredemy offers an online Care Certificate programme covering the current 16 Care Certificate standards. Workplace assessment and employer sign-off are still required where the standards require practical competence.

Does Flexebee offer the Care Certificate?

Care Certificate training forms part of its care-training offering. Because the Flexebee proposition is transitioning towards Careskills Academy, new customers should confirm exactly which Care Certificate programme they will receive and verify that it reflects the current 16-standard framework.

Are Caredemy and Flexebee courses CPD accredited?

Both providers advertise CPD-accredited online training. Buyers should check individual course details where a particular accreditation is essential.

Do both providers include an LMS?

Yes. Both provide learning-management functionality for organisational customers, including tools for monitoring staff training and progress.

Does Caredemy send automated training reminders?

Yes. Automated training reminders are advertised within Caredemy’s Team Training proposition.

Does Flexebee provide training reminders?

Flexebee/Careskills LMS functionality includes training/course reminder features. Buyers should confirm exactly how reminders and renewal periods are configured within their chosen package.

Can Caredemy manage multiple care locations?

Yes. Caredemy advertises multi-branch reporting as part of its employer training proposition.

Can employees be replaced on a Caredemy team account?

Caredemy advertises free learner replacements with Team Training. This can reduce the effective cost of training for organisations experiencing employee turnover.

Does Flexebee offer free learner replacements?

An equivalent explicit free learner-replacement promise was not identified on the public Flexebee pages reviewed for this comparison. Organisations should ask whether licences can be reassigned when employees leave.

Which provider is better for webinars?

Flexebee/Careskills has a stronger proposition where live webinar delivery is a priority because webinars are specifically incorporated into its wider training offering.

Which provider is better for online-only training?

Both provide online training. Caredemy currently advertises 250+ online courses alongside PAYG, unlimited and managed Team Training options, making it particularly relevant to organisations primarily seeking scalable self-paced e-learning.

What should I ask for before choosing a care training provider?

Request the current course catalogue, full annual price, Care Certificate specification, LMS demonstration, reporting functionality, refresher-reminder process, learner-replacement policy, multi-site functionality, support arrangements and details of any courses excluded from unlimited packages.

Then compare these against your actual staff training matrix rather than choosing solely on headline price.