People stuck in ‘modern day asylums’ due to a lack of community care settings

A lack of social care and housing is leading to people with a learning disability or autism unable to be discharged from ‘modern day...

Octopus Real Estate appoints director of origination

Octopus Real Estate has strengthened its care home fund management team by recruiting Chris Wishart as director of origination. He will take a lead role...

CareTech on track to deliver despite uncertainty

CareTech Holdings Plc is on track to deliver on its business plan and has yet to experience any major negative financial impact from Covid-19. In...

Third of coronavirus-related deaths in care homes, NRS says

A third of all Covid-related deaths in Scotland have occurred in care homes, figures have revealed. As at Sunday 19 April, 1,616 deaths had been...

Calls for better support for disabled people and services

The government response to supporting adult social care during the coronavirus pandemic needs to be more inclusive so disabled people and their services get...

Opportunity to make decisive change in social care, says report

The government should use the coronavirus pandemic to undertake long term social care reform that delivers improvements in the sector and removes the historic...

Precious Homes appoints Fergal Cawley as chief executive

Precious Homes – a social care provider for people with autism and learning disabilities – has appointed Fergal Cawley as its chief executive officer. He...

VIDEO: The Care Home Show speaks to… 

In this episode Simon Parker, founder of the care management consultancy SP&P, speaks to the Care Workers’ Charity’s executive director Karolina Gerlich and chair...

More than 1,000 Covid-related deaths in care homes, ONS figures show

More than 1,000 Covid-related deaths occurred in care homes in England and Wales up to Friday 10 April (week 15), Office for National Statistics...

Kingsley Healthcare to open second homecare branch

Kinglsey Healthcare is planning to open a second branch of its homecare and live-in care division to cover Suffolk and Norfolk. The move follows a...