Safety guidance for care providers released
Safety advice has been published online by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to help managers running health and care services.
The guidance, ‘learning from safety...
Children in care should receive more boarding places, says Education Minister
The Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said private schools should offer more boarding places to looked-after children to improve outcomes for them and to...
Elli Investments EBITDA dented during Q2
Lower care home occupancy, increases in agency staff and the rising national minimum wage dented EBITDA at the parent of Four Seasons Health Care...
Social care funding inquiry launched
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the social care system in England, requesting written contributions to its investigation.
The...
Human rights training for Northern Ireland care staff
Social care staff in Northern Ireland are to receive human rights training as part of a government response to an inquiry into the treatment...
CQC ‘closely monitoring’ future viability of Allied Healthcare
Allied Healthcare has failed to provide adequate assurance to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that the company has funding or new investment to ensure...
ICG chair to write to all MPs over care crisis
The chair of the Independent Care Group (ICG) plans to write to all 650 MPs calling for emergency measures to end the care crisis...
Kieran Murphy appointed chairman of Mears Group
Kieran Murphy has been appointed as chairman and a non-executive director of Mears Group, with Bob Holt retiring from the board.
Murphy has spent much...
Lack of parental involvement in child detention decisions ‘a problem’, MPs told
Family members of young people with a learning disability or autism are often excluded from being given appropriate information and making decisions about their...
Care bodies call for better oversight
Two leading care groups have called for an oversight body to look at how local authorities are delivering social care due to a lack...
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