Anchor secures funding to improve heating systems

Revenue grant funding has been secured by Anchor to improve communal heating systems at three of its housing developments. The not-for-profit provider of specialist housing...

Agency use at Voyage Care falls due to higher recruitment and retention

Higher recruitment and retention helped cut agency costs at Voyage Care, its quarterly results showed. Agency fell in Q2 to 2.4% of direct care hours...

Owner of homecare provider handed slavery and trafficking order

A slavery and trafficking risk order (STRO) has been handed down to the owner of a Leicestershire-based homecare service provider. Leicester Magistrates’ Court approved an...

Gold Care Homes grows provision with three settings

Gold Care Homes has acquired three properties as it continues to develop its operations. It has bought Marlborough Court in Thamesmead, Murrayfield in Edmonton, both...

Hallmark searches for external investment as brothers decide to retire

Hallmark Care Homes is searching for an external investment partner to allow shareholders and brothers Ram and Vidya Goyal to exit the business and...

YFM Equity Partners invests in Antser Group

BGF has fully exited Antser Group – a provider of assessments and social care training – following a management buy-out (MBO) backed by YFM...

Inspired Villages secures permission to deliver retirement community

Inspired Villages has received planning approval to deliver phase one of its Arun Lea retirement community in Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex. The reversed matters application...

Octopus strengthens relationship with Sandstone Care Group

Octopus Real Estate has added an 80-bed setting in North Yorkshire to its healthcare fund’s portfolio of over 100 care homes. Sandstone Care Group, which...

Audley Group secures £28.5m financing facility

Audley Group has completed a £28.5m financing facility to be provided by global investment manager Federated Hermes. The five-year loan facility will focus on six...
Changes to wage regulations that are set to come into force in April

Social care sector’s ability to pass on costs ‘highly constrained’

Employers in low-paying sectors - in particular social care and childcare – are ‘highly constrained’ in their ability to pass on costs. This was highlighted...