Holiday pay: where are we now?
Holiday pay can be a headache for care providers. Employment partner at Irwin Mitchell Sybille Steiner provides insight
When an employee takes annual leave, how...
Hallmark launches construction company
Hallmark Care Homes plans to build its own care homes through its new construction vehicle Savista Developments.
The company will source land, obtain planning permission...
Unregistered provider fined
The owner of a domiciliary care business has been ordered to pay almost £9,000 after she was found to be operating illegally.
Florica...
More than 330,000 forced to sell homes to pay for care, says charity
More than 330,000 older people have been forced to sell their homes to pay for care since 2000 when the Royal Commission proposed making...
Social care facing workforce exodus, research warns
A third of social care workers are looking to leave the sector within the next five years.
This equates to more than half a million...
Action for Care refused application to vary registration
A tribunal has ruled in favour of the health and care regulator’s decision to refuse an application by Action for Care Ltd to vary...
Saint Cecilia’s grows portfolio with purchase
Saint Cecilia’s Care Group has bought Alba Rose care home in Pickering, North Yorkshire, from a family owner for an undisclosed sum.
The 22-bed property...
Target Healthcare’s portfolio value grows 30%
The portfolio value of Target Healthcare REIT increased by almost a third during the year ended 30 June 2019.
The value rose by 29.9% to...
Cross-party cooperation crucial to social care reform, says report
Cross-party cooperation is a key component to social care reform that England can learn from Germany.
In its report, What can England learn from the...
Overstretched social care system leading to deaths, says charity
Almost 500 people died in Scottish hospitals while waiting to be discharged last year, with the vast majority held up by health and social...
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