Reforms could cost billions more and create further workforce issues

Costs of social care reforms in the first nine years could be at least £10bn higher than estimated and create further workforce problems in...

Radical reset of children’s social care ‘unavoidable’

A £2.6bn whole system reform programme has been proposed to radically reset children’s social care. Josh MacAlister’s independent review said providing care for children should...

Sanders Senior Living to develop 60-bed care home

Sanders Senior Living is developing a 60-bedroom care home in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, with construction due to start next week. Each room will have en-suite...

Belong begins preparatory work for £20m village

Belong has started preliminary site work at Wirral Waters, ahead of development of its £20m care village. Belong Wirral will be a dementia-friendly neighbourhood within...

Bield recruits director to drive HR and people strategy

Bield Housing and Care has hired Nikki Ritchie to the role of director of people and organisational development as the provider looks to deliver...

Construction begins on retirement community Homewood Grove

Willmott Dixon has started building work on retirement living community Homewood Grove for Rangeford Villages.   A 4.7-acre brownfield site in Chertsey, Surrey, will be developed...

ICS leaders encouraged to engage with adult social care sector

Effective engagement between integrated care systems (ICSs) and the adult social care sector (ASC) has not been consistent, research outlined in a white paper...

Shaw healthcare withstands challenges posed by pandemic

Shaw healthcare’s restructure to an employee ownership trust helped the group withstand some of the financial challenges posed by the pandemic, with it reporting...

Signature partners Alzheimer’s Research UK on dementia awareness

Signature Senior Lifestyle and Alzheimer’s Research UK are partnering to raise awareness of dementia and funds to support research into a treatment. The charity will...

Liberty Protection Safeguards: what does it mean for you?

Health and care partner Neil Ward and principal associate Molly Sanghera of Mills & Reeve discuss the Liberty Protection Safeguards consultation process and share...