Social Care

Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (7 July 2005: Column 587W ) how pilot areas will be chosen to test the...

Norfolk and Suffolk training contract signed

The not-for-profit care training provider Norfolk and Suffolk Care Support Ltd has signed a new contract with Norfolk Social Services and the Learning and...

International interest in UK obesity treatment

A group of Japanese parents whose children suffer from the rare obesity disorder Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS) travelled to the UK this month to...

Operations manager for child care provider

Green Corns, the Rochdale provider of specialist care services for children, has appointed Angela Glynn as its national operations manager.Glynn will be responsible for...

Prime Life continues its expansion

Prime Life Ltd, the Midlands based health and social care provider controlled by the Van Herrewege family, has continued its major expansion programme in...

SCIE appoints new board member

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has appointed Ziggi Alexander CBE to its Board of Trustees.Alexander holds a varied portfolio of roles in...

Is privately funded home care declining?

A report published jointly by Skills for Care and the UK Home Care Association (UKHCA), Who Cares Now?, has found an unexpected fall in...

Capital’s care ‘under-funded’ and ‘under-staffed’ in a nationally failing market

Green Paper proposals on elderly care will not deliver the radical improvement in services required, according to a King's Fund report which claims the...

Investors tap into telecare

Private equity investor Bridgepoint has acquired telecare equipment and services provider Tunstall Holdings from HgCapital in a transaction worth £225m, making the former owner...

£1.5m funding injection for city carers

Unpaid carers looking after relatives in Bristol city are to benefit from £1.5m of extra funding following a council pledge made last month during...