Care home residents to receive video devices to stay connected
Isolated residents in care homes, hospices and in-patient learning disability and autism units will receive devices to keep connected with family and friends during...
ThinCats provides funding for Churchlake Care expansion plans
Lender ThinCats has provided a £4m loan to Churchlake Care, as the operator continues to grow its portfolio of properties.
Established in 2017, Churchlake operates...
Social care funding gap inquiry reopens
An inquiry to establish how much extra money will be needed to be spent by government in each of the next five years to...
‘Fragile’ care markets susceptible to failure, ADASS report concludes
Coronavirus has made ‘extremely fragile’ care markets even more susceptible to failure, according to directors of adult social services.
Before the pandemic directors across England...
Dementia charities call for an end to ‘enforced separation’
Charities have written to the Health and Social Care Secretary of State Matt Hancock requesting relatives of people with dementia receive ‘key worker’ status...
One-fifth of homecare workers remain in post for longer than 10 years
Two-thirds of domiciliary care workers in Wales have been in their current role for more than two years, while one-fifth have remained in their...
Impact exchanges contracts on £7.4m property
Investor Impact Healthcare REIT has exchanged contracts on a property for £7.4m in Suffolk and received regulatory approval for its deal for nine care...
Care sector needs support to implement technology, says report
The social care sector should receive greater support to become technologically enabled, with minimum standards to be met by all providers.
Many care homes and...
Caring for employees
Sybille Steiner, partner, and Jo Moseley, professional support lawyer and senior associate, in Irwin Mitchell’s employment team look at how care providers can protect...
Immigration system to add further pressures on care sector, report finds
Almost 80% of people from the EU working in the care sector would have been found ineligible by the government’s planned points-based immigration system.
A...
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