Adlington Retirement Living completes land purchases

Adlington Retirement Living has completed a trio of land purchases in three months, as part of its expansion plans. The three sites are in St...

Homecare workers to receive backdated pay following deal

Homecare workers have won £20m in back pay after being underpaid compared to staff in residential settings. Around 1,000 homecare workers employed by South Lanarkshire...

Nourish Care partners with BookJane Inc to help ‘join the dots’

Workforce management and scheduling solutions business BookJane Inc has partnered with Nourish Care to support providers to manage operations and streamline administrative processes. Through the...

Strengthen financial oversight of large providers, report recommends

Tougher financial regulation of large care providers should be introduced as part of plans to create a National Care Service (NCS) in England. New requirements...

Community Integrated Care and Inspire to merge

Community Integrated Care (CIC) and Inspire intend to merge, with the transition expected to be complete in August. Both charities support people with learning disabilities,...

Audley IRC development to help secure Young Epilepsy services

Audley Group has had planning permission for an integrated retirement community granted despite concerns over the development’s harm to the green belt. Development of the...

‘Institutional prejudice’ towards private sector providers

Independent care providers in Wales are suffering ‘institutional prejudice’ from local authorities and health boards over fees and workforce pay. Care Forum Wales chief executive...

Care alliance offers support to ICB chairs to help remove barriers

An alliance has written an open letter to integrated care boards (ICBs) in a bid to help remove barriers that are preventing providers from...

Recruitment and retention difficulties inhibiting investment and growth

Pressures on staffing in children’s homes combine with inflation-driven cost-of-living rises to add new challenges to a market already facing many issues Continued challenges in...

Dementia strategy aims for more ‘co-ordinated’ care

A vision for dementia policy identifying priorities to improve the lives of people living with the condition, their families and carers has been published...