TOPSS announces £15m training fund

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003TOPSS England, the social care workforce body, has allocated £15m for social care staff training in 2003/4, with...

Ashbourne results

Ashbourne Limited, the main operating subsidiary of Ashbourne Consolidated Group Limited, that at the year end operated 129 care homes (2001:133) has published its...

Lincolnshire legal wrangle continues

Lincolnshire County Council has issued a defence to a group of care home owners who have taken legal action over the level of baseline...

DoH publishes RAP report

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003The Department of Health (DoH) has published a report of the findings from the second year of the...

Barchester plans to rerun the ‘boom’ times

Barchester Healthcare, the long term care provider focusing on the provision of homes exclusively for the private payer, has revealed aggressive plans for further...

Eastwood tightlipped on future

Managing director of Eastwood Care Homes Brian Rosenberg has refused to comment on speculation that the company is about to be sold to Southern...

Task force calls for urgent action

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003The government needs to re-examine the level of funding allocated to services for people with learning disabilities according...

Birmingham director

Birmingham City Council has announced the appointment of Thomas Dervin as strategic director of social care and health.Dervin is currently director of Newcastle social...

NHP board appointment

NHP plc has announced the appointment of John Murphy to the main board with immediate effect. Murphy joined NHP in November last year as...

Minimum standards for nurses agencies

Community Care Market News (News) February 2003The Department of Health (DoH) has published minimum standards for nurses agencies. According to the DoH, the regulations...