Supreme performance revealed post-acquisition

Supreme Care Homes, the family run group of four care homes in the north east of England, has been acquired by Avery Healthcare Limited...

BUPA increases commitment to care

Care homes are playing an increasingly important part in BUPA Group’s business according to figures in its unaudited preliminary results for the year to...

Castlebeck reports more positive results

Castlebeck Group Ltd, the North of England provider of specialist care for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, has reported another set of...

Residential Care Costs

Mark Hunter asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 March 2006: Column 1210W) (1) how many people in England receiving residential care pay...

Care Homes

Sandra Gidley asked the Secretary of State for Health (8 March 2006: Column 1610W) how many care home inspections were carried out by the...

Healthcare Homes makes another purchase

The East Anglian based Healthcare Homes Group, the operator set up by ex-senior managers of Care UK, has signed another multi-million pound deal adding...

Social care NVQ success rate improving says Skills for Care

Figures from the Employers Organisation for local government (EO) released in April demonstrate a significant rise in the number of students achieving health and...

Princess Royal re-opens Euxton Park Care Home

HRH The Princess Royal reopened the Four Seasons Health Care Euxton Park Care Home,near Chorley on 19 April.The Princess, who is also President of...

CSA appointments

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is in the process of appointing 29 children’s services advisers to support its six directors of children...

NI Commissioner’s death

Nigel Williams, Commissioner for Children and Young People in Northern Ireland, has died following a two-year battle with cancer. Barney McNeany, chief executive of...