Healthcare Homes continues growth

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Healthcare Homes, the company set up just a few months ago by three ex-members of Care UK’s senior management team, has purchased two independent...

Review of Scotland’s children’s workforce needed

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The Scottish Executive should carry out an overarching review of the children’s workforce rather than focusing on specific groups of workers, according to a...

New Horizons takes on new homes

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Shropshire-based childcare specialists New Horizons (Childcare) Holdings Ltd has acquired Welsh rival Forward Approach in a £3m deal, taking its portfolio to 15 homes...

Free senior management skills assessment

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The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is offering90 senior nursery managers in south-east England a free skills review.Run in conjunction with Business Link in...

MHA announces strong year

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Following a year of developing flagship extra care sites the not-for-profit MHA Care Group has revealed an annual income growth of 15% in the...

Child protection packs sent to childcare staff

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The NSPCC has sent its Educare pack to 220,000 people employed in children services, including childcare workers.Educare is a child protection awareness distance learning...

Shaftesbury Society restricted in 2005

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Originally providing care for poverty stricken children in Victorian times under the name of the Ragged School Union, the Shaftsbury Society has changed considerably...

Avocet continues its good work

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The Avocet Trust, a charitable provider of care services to people with profound learning disabilities, has continued to support many people in the East...

PLA pre-school parental involvement programme

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA) is offering guidance on developing policies to registered childcare providers.Policies for Early Years Settings, which has been produced in...

McCarthy & Stone does ‘pretty well’ considering

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Repeating the tone of a number of announcements it has made over the past year, retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone warned that the...
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