Care home occupancy at five-year high
Occupancy rates for UK care homes rose for the fifth consecutive year, while average fee levels outstripped RPI inflation for the fourth year running,...
Winter crisis highlights care shortfall
Council leaders from the Local Government Association (LGA) have said the winter health crisis should incentivise the government to adequately fund the country’s social...
Skills for Care graduates
Skills for Care’s new graduate trainees have started their year-long management training programme, designed to develop the leaders and managers of the future.
This new...
Hunt says Green Paper will make system less ‘random’
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Jeremy Hunt has indicated that the Green Paper on older people will propose reforms to make...
Keys Group makes two acquisitions
The Keys Group has acquired the children’s services division of Aspirations Care and The Leaving Care Company for undisclosed sums.
Aspiration’s specialist children’s services division...
Social care gets £150m in Local Finance Settlement
The Government has announced an extra £150m for councils to spend on social care in the Local Finance Settlement 2018/19.
Secretary of State for Housing,...
Ideal Carehomes back to profit
Ideal Carehomes was back in the black at the year ended 31 March 2017 as it moves towards providing care primarily to self-paying residents....
Fremantle reports 1.6% rise in revenue
The Fremantle Trust reported a 1.6% rise in revenues for the year ended 31 March 2017 from £48.7m to £49.4m.
Total expenditure also increased to...
CIC moves into the red
Not-for-profit operator Community Integrated Care (CIC) went into the red for the year ended 31 March 2017 thanks to poor performance of its older...
Ombudsman issues care cost contract guidance
Social care providers can download fresh guidance from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to help ensure that cost information is clear in...
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