Cash boost for supported and specialised housing
Thousands of homes designed for people needing extra support will be built over the next three years, the government has announced.
Supported and specialised housing...
Scottish care home has service suspended
Muirhead Care Home has had an interim suspension order taken out against it after inspectors found ‘vulnerable’ residents were being ‘tied to chairs with...
Audley Group to build 19th luxury village
Luxury retirement provider Audley Group has exchanged contracts on a site in Cobham, Surrey, which will be home to its 19th high-end village.
It will...
CQC cancels Carlton House registration
Carlton House in Croydon has had its registration cancelled by the Care Quality Commission - effectively closing it down.
The home remained rated Inadequate at...
Social care improvements help delayed transfer figures
The number of NHS delayed transfers because of social care problems has fallen by 40%.
Figures released by NHS England for June show that the...
Impact Healthcare positive over property investments
Impact Healthcare REIT plans to add more properties to its portfolio in the remaining months of the year having added six in the first...
Leonard Cheshire to offload 17 care homes
Leonard Cheshire is selling off a ‘small minority’ of its properties, with the cash raised being invested in other residential and outreach services.
The charity...
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...
Four in ten waiting more than a month to leave Scottish hospitals
Forty percent of older people in Scottish hospitals are having to wait over a month to leave despite being ready to go because care...
Unison seeks permission to appeal sleep-ins decision
Unison has lodged an application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court in the Mencap case.
It is expected to take up to eight...