Log my Care raises additional £3m

Digital platform Log my Care has raised an additional £3m from existing investor Mercia Ventures. The investment will further support Log my Care as a...

Navigating rules

Adrian Henderson, associate in the health and social care team at RWK Goodman, explains why care providers need to be aware of their responsibilities...

Care agency workers ‘being taken advantage of’

Social care and NHS agency staff have reported being offered pay under the £11.44 per hour minimum wage in the first week of April,...

Jo Bennett appointed as CFO at McCarthy Stone

Developer and manager of retirement communities - McCarthy Stone - has recruited Jo Bennett as its chief financial officer. Bennett was most recently chief business...

Connaught Care opens 70-bed setting in St Neots

Connaught Care has opened Henbrook House in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, with plans for a further five homes over the next 12 months. Henbrook House, which...

A growing risk

Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales director, detective superintendent Paul Peters, discusses the Welsh social care sector, highlighting cyber security risks the industry faces, and...

ThinCats appoints relationship director for healthcare

Finance provider to mid-sized SMEs – ThinCats – has appointed Darrell Franciosy as its relationship director for healthcare. He has more than two decades’ experience...

Facilitating growth

Improving safeguarding can help clear the path to growth. Following a survey of the special educational needs safeguarding sector, Dr Michelle Tempest, senior partner,...

‘Short delay’ in assessing integrated care systems

A ‘short delay’ has been agreed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Department of Health and Social Care in assessing integrated care systems...

CHA excludes membership to organisations involving tax havens

The Children’s Homes Association (CHA) has amended its membership criteria to exclude organisations that involve tax havens. CHA has more than 300 members of varying...