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Impact Healthcare REIT strengthens portfolio

Impact Healthcare REIT has bought a Bristol care home for £4.9m in a sale and leaseback transaction. The home operates as two units on one...

Infection control fund extended to support social care during winter

Care providers in England will benefit from more than £500m to help reduce Covid-19 transmission and protect residents and staff throughout winter. The £600m...

L&G partners university to launch care research centre

Legal & General is partnering with the University of Edinburgh to set up an Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC), which is designed to improve...

Active Care Group urged to row back on staff relocation plans

Active Care Group (ACG) has been urged by trade union officials to row back on plans to relocate staff following its decision to close...

Fairway Homecare to open second office

Fairway Homecare is opening a second office as it targets to create more than 150 care jobs over the next 12 months. The agency and...

Councils to receive funds to implement charging reforms

Local authorities will receive more than £15m to help them implement charging reforms that aim to bring an end to unpredictable costs of care. Introduction...

Innovation fund to develop support for unpaid carers

A £5m fund has been set up to invest in innovative ways of supporting unpaid carers, outside of mainstream health and care services. The Carers...

Council directors ‘could not manage’ if a large provider failed in their area

Three in four directors of adult social care services (75%) could not cope if a large provider were to fail, data from Association of...

‘Dangerous’ to consider nationalising social care, says former cabinet minister

Incorporating social care into the NHS would be ‘dangerous’ and ‘wholly wrong’, former cabinet minister Damian Green has said. Speaking during a webinar on the...
Good guidance practice issued care providers

Council at fault for moving autistic teenager

An investigation has found significant faults with the way a council moved an autistic teenager from her residential special school midway through her studies. The...