Provider fined for exposing residents to avoidable harm
Diamond Care (UK) Ltd has been fined £81,000 after pleading guilty to putting its residents at significant risk of avoidable harm after not maintaining...
Workforce increasingly identified as reason for deregistration
Workforce issues are increasingly being identified as a reason for deregistration of adult social care services.
Giving evidence to a committee of MPs, Ian Trenholm,...
Additional Covid-19 booster jab to be offered to care home residents
An additional Covid-19 booster jab will be offered to residents in care homes for older adults from spring.
People aged 75 years and over, as...
Making Space brings forward pay increases for frontline staff
Making Space is the latest care provider to pay all employees the voluntary real living (RLW) wage.
As recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, £9.90...
Data reveals ‘troubling’ impact of Covid on people with learning disabilities
People with learning disabilities were four times more likely to die because of Covid-19 than the rest of the population, data has revealed.
The rate...
Charity fined for failing to provide safe care
A care operator has been ordered to pay £9,000 for failing to provide safe care and treatment and exposing a resident to significant risk...
Revenue growth at Larchwood but pre-tax profits dip
Despite slow growth rates in local authority average weekly fees Larchwood Group’s north and south divisions reported rising turnover, its latest financial reports show.
Larchwood...
Social care reform not taken ‘seriously’, says NHS Confederation leader
Little progress in social care has been made in the last two decades with cross-party consensus frequently breaking down causing any reform to stutter.
Speaking...
More people to receive joined-up care through integrated systems
Over 12 million people in England hope to benefit from better integration between health and social care services as four new areas join an...
Care sector ‘teetering on the edge of a cliff’
Labour MPs have hit out at the government in a parliamentary debate for not doing enough to tackle the ongoing crisis in social care.
During...
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