Careforce continues buying

In a deal which continues a trend toward consolidation of smaller domiciliary care agencies by bigger players in the marketplace, AIM-floated provider Careforce Group...

CSCI publishes three year vision

The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) has set out plans to improve its work with councils and service providers over the next three...

Birmingham extra care progress

At a meeting held last month Birmingham city councillors agreed to plans first released last April (CCMN April 2005) outlining the construction and operation...

Below inflation increases emerge as norm

In what may mark the end of a three year period of broad improvement in profit margins for care home providers, Community Care Market...

Corporation of London director

The Corporation of London has appointed Jenny Goodall as its new director of community and children's services.Goodall, who is currently the director of social...

Welsh Assembly support boost

At the end of July, Welsh Health and Social Services Minister Brian Gibbons said that local authorities across Wales will each benefit from a...

Serco builds social care team

International services company Serco has appointed Mark Fowell as business development manager for social care services as part of a programme to expand the...

POPP successes progress to round two

The Department of Health (DH) has announced that of the 144 local authorities which submitted applications for grants under the Partnerships for Older People...

Barchester report major advance

Barchester Healthcare Ltd, the long term care provider funded by Irish financiers, has announced a major increase in revenues and operating profits for the...

Integrated health and care systems on the cards

Just days before the close of the consultation period on the Green Paper for adult social care the Department of Health (DH) shocked providers...