Court ruling backs CQC to close care service
Lime Trees Residential Care Home Ltd has failed in its bid to stop the Care Quality Commission from cancelling its registration.
At the Royal Courts...
Care agency workers ‘being taken advantage of’
Social care and NHS agency staff have reported being offered pay under the £11.44 per hour minimum wage in the first week of April,...
Caring about retirement
There is a broad description between what is referred to as retirement housing and housing with care. Partners at Trowers & Hamlins Kyle Holling...
Perseus receives approval for care home in Berkshire
Perseus Land and Developments has received planning approval for a 72-bed care home scheme in Bracknell Forest, Berkshire.
Backed by Barwood Capital, Perseus had been...
Social care system at risk of collapse in areas, report finds
System failures are having an adverse impact on the social care market, with things so bad in some places that it is becoming impossible...
Salutem continues to seek investment opportunities
Salutem Care and Education plans to continue to grow its operations both through investments and organically.
Latest results showed the group continued to grow its...
Hamberley Development buys care home site
Specialist care homes developer Hamberley Development has purchased a site in Keynsham, south of Bristol, for an undisclosed sum.
The site, sold by consultancy Carterwood...
Care home provider fined for fire
Newgrange of Cheshunt Ltd has been fined £175,000 for the fire which killed two pensioners at a care home in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in April...
Health and social care letting down LGBT communities
Structures and services in health and social care are letting down lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Many LGBT people are expected to fit...
People most at risk should have been prioritised, MPs told
Care homes should have been a central focus in pandemic planning, a group of MPs have been told.
Giving evidence to a health and social...