‘Renewed appetite’ from buyers and investors, says report

Investment activity in the care sector is steadily returning after investors paused deal-making in 2023 to focus on asset management and capital raising. Analysis published...

Midlands Care acquires three sites in Leicestershire

Midlands Care has acquired three purpose-built settings in Leicestershire, growing its portfolio to a dozen of properties. Parkhouse Grange in Earl Shilton; Whetstone Grange in...

Mills & Reeve strengthens healthtech team

Mills & Reeve has appointed partner Gayle Curry to support the growth of its commercial healthtech practice. Curry (pictured) joins from Mishcon de Reya, where...

Former care home manager failed to protect residents from sexual assault

A former manager of a Buckinghamshire care home has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 for failing to safeguard people living in the...

Care leavers facing homelessness increases 54%

The rise in the number of young care leavers facing homelessness has grown by 54% over the last five years. Figures show 4,300 care leavers...

Civitas Investment Management enters German later living market

Civitas Investment Management Ltd (CIM) has entered the German later living market with a €300m (£251.7m) acquisition of 26 older people’s care and assisted...

On the rise

With the Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s single assessment framework in force, Duncan Astill, partner at law firm Mills & Reeve, assesses the uptick in...

Country Court to grow portfolio with site acquisition

Country Court is growing its portfolio with the acquisition of a development site in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, which benefits from planning permission for a care...

Belong reports rising occupancy and fee rates

Growth in occupancy and fee rates as well as a cut in agency use resulted in Belong returning a surplus this year. Occupancy within its...

Funding black hole could see councils becoming ‘care authorities’

Councils face the prospect of providing ‘little more’ than care services by the end of the decade to avert financial insolvency, leaders have warned....