Home Instead expands live-in care services

Home Instead Senior Care has bought SuperCarers as part of plans to extend its live-in care offering to enable more older people to be...

Care providers urged to be open and transparent

Care providers have been urged to maintain open and transparent communications between themselves and the families of relatives they care for during the ongoing...

Concerns raised over suitability of housing for older people

Fewer than half of people over the age of 55 think their home will be suitable in later life, research by Age Scotland has...

Two-thirds support tax rise to fund better pay in care, survey shows

Two-thirds of people would support an increase in tax to fund a pay rise for care workers. Data published by gender equality campaigning charity Fawcett...

Relatives association expresses ‘disappointment’ over CQC’s role

The care regulator has been accused of lacking oversight and not representing the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter addressed to Care Quality...

VIDEO: Simon Parker speaks to… 

In this episode Simon Parker, founder of the care management consultancy SP&P, speaks to Mark Lloyd, who is the managing director of RMBI Care. Mark...

Falling admissions impact Four Seasons Health Care

Admissions at Four Seasons Health Care dropped more than 50% at one point this month due to the impact of Covid-19. At this time of...

Residential care less likely to be considered, survey finds

Almost a third of people are less likely to seek residential care for an elderly relative than before coronavirus, research from Policy Exchange and...

Providers being supported through a ‘range of measures’, ADASS says

Local authorities have put in place an ‘extensive range of measures’ to support social care providers to deal with increased costs and other pressures...

Social care funding gap inquiry reopens

An inquiry to establish how much extra money will be needed to be spent by government in each of the next five years to...