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Social care services finding it difficult to recruit, report concludes
More than half of registered social care services in Wales have found it difficult to recruit within the last year.
In a report commissioned by...
Thousands deprived of liberty without proper assessment
A county council has been criticised by the social care ombudsman after it decided not to assess vulnerable people who may have been unlawfully...
Skills for Care launches improvement guide
Skills for Care has launched an online guide to help social care employers to identify, plan and implement change across their service.
Guide to improvement...
Government pledges to protect older people from unfair fees
The government has accepted most of the Law Commission’s recommendations on event fees, including a new statutory code of practice and making costs ‘crystal...
Diversification proves positive for Impact Healthcare
Tenant diversification helped boost pre-tax profit by 73.6% to £16.5m (2017: £9.5m) at Impact Health REIT, its full year results have shown.
The investor acquired...
Self-funders help drive revenue growth at Care UK
New homes and an increase in self-funded residents helped revenue grow £25.8m at Care UK’s residential care services division.
The group’s mature estate also delivered...
Foster carer household numbers continue to fall, report finds
The number of approved foster carer households in Scotland has continued to drop.
Care Inspectorate figures show that in 2017, 365 new foster carer homes...
Fee rises boost MPS Care turnover
Rising average fees and a new care home helped MPS Care Group post growing turnover of £16.5m (2017: £15.9m) for the year ended 30...
Groups claim mental capacity bill makes ‘unjustifiable assumptions’
Concerns have been raised by care sector organisations about a revised impact assessment concerning changes to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which is progressing...
Children’s social care reform ‘painfully slow’, MPs conclude
The Department for Education needs to do more work in reforming the quality and finances of children’s social care.
A group of MPs has concluded...
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