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City & County buys The Human Support Group

City & County has bought homecare services specialist The Human Support Group (HSG) for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1998, Manchester-headquartered HSG provides domiciliary care,...

Dementia care costs to treble over next two decades

The cost of social care for people with dementia will nearly treble over the next 20 years, research has revealed. While the number of people...

Lifeways Group implements 20/20 strategy

Lifeways Group is implementing a performance improvement programme to transform the way it provides services. The group has gone through ‘significant transformation’ as part of...

Navigating market dynamics

Jonathan Sparey and Eilert Hinrichs, partners at L.E.K. Consulting, explain why the private sector is critical to meeting the growing demand for looked after...

Contact time

There are calls for changes to the amount of contact time children in care should have with birth parents who have abused them. Alistair...
Realities of trying to meet costs highlighted in Age UK report

Charity calls for £8bn to stabilise social care services

The next government must invest £8bn over the next 24 months to stabilise exiting social care services, a charity has warned. Age UK said emergency...

Think tank calls for ‘bold reform’ agenda to help tackle social care ‘crisis’

A package of interventions covering funding, workforce and ethical commissioning has been proposed to help reform adult social care. A report published by the Institute...

CM meets… David Leatherbarrow

Delivering quality outcomes has been central to the work of the National Fostering Agency Group’s chief executive. After lengthy experience in the dental sector...
Financial strain for ‘sandwich’ generation, YouGov poll finds

Care workers to benefit from living wage pay boost

Some care workers will be set for a pay boost as the living wage rates rise to £9.30 across the UK and £10.75 in...

Councils need billions of pounds to pay for adult social care, IFS says

English councils will need billions of pounds over the next parliament if they are to meet the rising costs of providing adult social care. Analysis...