Devon extra care scheme moves forward

Affordable housing provider the Guinness Trust has successfully purchased a former hospital in Okehampton, Devon, from NHS Estates in the latest stage of a...

Wolverhampton & MHA

Wolverhampton council last month opened a new ‘very sheltered’ housing scheme and a residential care home with resource centre for the wider community in...

Windsor council and HA partner up

Plans for a new 60-bed home for elderly people with very high care needs have progressed at the Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead...

Housing 21 to handle Westminster dementia

Westminster city council has joined forces with social housing provider Housing 21 to improve dementia care across the London borough via a home-based assessment...

Bury goes for POPP 2 cash

Bury primary care trust and the council’s adult social services department have joined forces to submit an application for almost £1m of government funding...

Dudley gets technological

Half a million pounds will be invested in providing older residents in Dudley with home-based assistive technology systems over the next two years, a...

Cumbria launches home care support

A service to boost the number of approved carers able to provide support for a range of vulnerable people requiring home-based care has been...

Child care plans cleared by Coventry

Coventry city council has approved plans to enter into a partnership with residential care home operator Northern Care and establish a network of specialist...

CSCI man to head DH social care

The Commission for Social Care Inspection’s (CSCI) chief inspector David Behan is to move to the Department of Health (DH) and take up the...

New Joseph Rowntree head named

The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust has announced that Julia Unwin CBE will take over as director of the organisation when Lord Best retires at...