CM meets… Ron Taylor

Ron Taylor, founder and managing director of Parklands Care Homes, established the business in 1993, growing it from a single setting in Buckie, Banffshire,...

Skills for Care secures workforce contracts from DHSC

Skills for Care has secured two three-year contracts to strengthen support for the adult social care workforce in England. The first contract will see it...

Care home deals roundup

Logini Group has grown its portfolio of care homes with the acquisition of The Croft in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The provider, which owns five settings...

Mariposa Care Group targets growing bed numbers

Mariposa Care Group has maintained occupancy rates of over 90%, as it plans to grow the number of beds in its portfolio over the...

Baroness Casey highlights strain on carers navigating social care system

Baroness Louise Casey has highlighted the struggles unpaid carers have to go through when ‘navigating’ the social care system. During a speech at Carers UK’s...

Long-term partners, not short-term lenders

Anthony Newman, senior relationship manager at Allica Bank, explains why adding value matters As Britain’s population grows older, demand for high-quality care is growing too....

Beaufort Capital backs Birchgrove’s Chiswick development

Beaufort Capital has provided a senior debt facility to support the development of Birchgrove’s retirement living scheme in Chiswick, London. The scheme will deliver 50...

Housing 21 has consumer standards rating upgraded

Housing 21 has had its consumer standards rating upgraded from the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) after it delivered on an improvement strategy. The provider’s...

Newcore Capital achieves close for social infrastructure fund

Newcore Capital has achieved a first institutional close for its latest fund that will provide £150m to deploy across UK social infrastructure. The close includes...

First hurdle

Technology implementation can make or break care quality. Chloe Coxill, director of customer success (Europe) at Teton, discusses Across the UK care sector, investment in...