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Care home manager fined £40,000 following CQC prosecution
A care home manager has been ordered to pay more than £55,000 after pleading guilty to two offences of failing to provide safe care...
Delayed implementation of LPS ‘deeply’ disappointing
Implementation of Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) have been delayed, as the government prioritises plans to reform the care sector.
Announced in a letter to stakeholders,...
Review urges ‘change of culture’ to make ICSs effective
Social care needs to be a ‘national priority for investment and workforce development’ to enable effective integrated working.
An independent review into integrated care systems...
Momentum for change
Scotland’s housing with care supply gap is
stark, Andrew Fyfe explains
If the UK has a vast shortage of housing with care, then Scotland in...
No widespread adoption of digital social care services, report finds
Attitudes to technology around health and care shows a strong appetite but the potential is not being realised, a report has found.
Only a handful...
Danforth Care Homes opens Heatherton House
Danforth Care Homes has opened a residential, dementia and respite setting in Littleover, Derbyshire.
Heatherton House, which offers a restaurant, library, cinema, coffee bar, sweet...
Aligning strategies
The benefits of getting social care right
should not be underestimated, says
Professor Green
It was very clear during the pandemic just how professional the social...
Taskforce offers opportunity to make ‘real difference’ for older people
The older people’s housing taskforce will be headed by Professor Julienne Meyer.
She will be tasked with spearheading work to support the growth of the...
Incentivising part-time workers could stem recruitment issues, says report
LaingBuisson outlines proposal to expand the full-time equivalent social care
workforce by optimising part-time working
Fine tuning benefit entitlements could offer a short-term economical and targeted...
Cut to workforce development funds ‘cruel and unfair’
Slashing social care workforce development funding by half has been has been described as ‘cruel and unfair’ by providers.
As part of plans that build...
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