Care groups angered at green paper delay
Care groups have hit out at the government’s decision to postpone the social care green paper until autumn. Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured) confirmed the delay during a speech on plans for NHS funding yesterday (Monday). Speaking in the House of Commons, he said…
Care staff ‘well informed’ about child exploitation risks
An inspection of care services across Scotland has found that providers are proactively working well to protect children from the risks of sexual exploitation. The Care Inspectorate’s report concluded that, overall, care staff were generally ‘well informed’ about the risks of exploitation and understood their…
McCarthy & Stone chief to step down as spring trade dips
Retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone has issued a profit warning because of poor spring trade, with chief executive Clive Fenton announcing he is to step down at the end of August. Since April, the group has seen a noticeable decline in reservation rates as customers…
Income at The Children’s Family Trust ‘squeezed’
An increase in the number of children placed into foster care at The Children’s Family Trust helped boost its income from local authorities to £5.8m in the year ended 31 December 2017, from £5.5m in 2016, representing a 5.6% rise. However, total turnover, which included…
Impact Healthcare signs £50m loan facility
Impact Healthcare REIT plc has signed a £50m five-year loan facility with Metro Bank plc to help manage its capital structure and support the growth plans of its subsidiaries. The loan facility has two elements: an interest only term loan of £25m and a revolving…
Social care sector in waiting game for funding
The £20bn boost for the NHS needs to be matched with better funding for social care, the sector’s representative bodies have warned. In response to Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement that by 2023 an extra £20bn a year would be available for the health service,…
Boarding schools could ‘break cycle of risk’ for children in care
Councils should consider sending children in or at risk of going into care to boarding school to boost their social and educational outcomes, an education minister has said. The parliamentary undersecretary of state for the schools system Lord Agnew has backed a report by the…
Treatment of residents at care home ‘degrading’, inquiry finds
An inquiry has unearthed ‘deeply concerning’ safeguarding failures at a dementia care home run by UK operator Runwood Homes. Eddie Lynch (pictured), the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland, ordered an investigation into the 76-bed Dunmurry Manor Care Home in Dunmurry, Belfast, following complaints…
Former ministers call for radical changes to health and social care
The NHS’s ‘need, not ability to pay’ principle should be extended to social care, two former health ministers have urged. Establishing a social care contract between the citizen and the state is one reform of a ten-point plan being put forward by professor of surgery…
Adult social care spending down 9% per person
Adult social care spending has fallen by 9% per person over the past decade, with cuts varying around the country but tending to be larger in more deprived areas. Spending by councils fell by 10% in real terms between 2009/10 and 2014/15 and despite increases…
