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ND Care & Support wins tenders to provide care across Powys

ND Care & Support has won two tenders with Powys County Council to provide domiciliary care to adults and children. It will offer care services...

Inefficiencies in planning for older people’s housing, says report

Nine out of ten successful planning applications for older people’s housing-with-care schemes over the past five years have not been built. Research published by Associated...

CQC must change inspection methods, its chief executive tells MPs

The care regulator must change its inspection methods but cannot guarantee that abuse in closed environments will not happen, its chief executive has told...

Providers consider exiting because of ‘severe financial pressures’

One third of adult social care providers – including half of smaller organisations – have considered exiting the market in the past 12 months,...

Home Instead partners university on research programme

Home Instead Senior Care is partnering with the University of York to research homecare for older people. The three-year programme, which will research person-centred homecare,...

Covid-19 guidance issued to local authority commissioners

Guidance has been issued to local authority commissioners to help support social care providers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Issued by the Association of Directors...

Care Protect expands into Ireland

Care Protect is continuing with its expansion by opening an office in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The surveillance and monitoring systems company operates its monitoring...

Housing with care research identifies health cost benefits

Increasing housing with care provision in Southampton to 450 units could have an annual health cost benefit of almost £900,000, research has shown. The city’s...

Worries remain despite downward trend in number of care home deaths

Care providers are worried the number of care and nursing home deaths from coronavirus could rise if lockdown restrictions are lifted too quickly. Figures released...

Children’s social services not stable, says Education Policy Institute

Vulnerable children are not receiving adequate support from social care services in the face of cost pressures and recruitment problems, an Education Policy Institute...