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Anchor significantly expands its estate with £100+M deal
Not-for-profit provider Anchor Trust significantly expanded its estate last month with two acquisitions.The biggest saw the charity purchase 24 care homes from LNT Group...
Ideapark suffers sharp fall in operating profit
Ideapark, the holding company that includes Core Assets Group through which it provides a range of children’s services, including foster care through Foster Care...
North Yorkshire reveals partners in £650M extra care plan
North Yorkshire county council has appointed six partners in a £650m deal that aims to bring extra care accommodation to every major town in...
Unclear trends in council spending
‘Trends unclear’ is not a great headline, but that’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s...
Inappropriate prescribing for ‘large’ PLD numbers
Large numbers of people with learning disabilities are being inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs, according to a new study from University College London.After examining anonymised...
Drop in MH police cell use – DH
The use of police cells as a ‘place of safety’ has been halved since the introduction of the Crisis Care Concordat, the Department of...
Foster care funding concerns raised by LGA
The Local Government Association (LGA) has expressed concerns about the amount of funding available to ensure young adults can stay with their foster families...
Providing a silver service – CCMn meets brighterkind chief executive Jeremy Richardson
Chief executive of Four Seasons’ self-pay care home business brighterkind, Jeremy Richardson talks to CCMn about ratios, refurbs and reinvigorating its workforce.Q How did...
Capacity fall to give care home providers market advantage?
Despite the predicted rise in demand for care services capacity for older people in care homes is shrinking, which could put providers in the...
Peering over the homecare precipice: Suhail Mirza takes a look at the problems and...
Publicly funded homecare is on a precipice and the market is described as ‘extremely fragile’ by Professor Martin Green of Care England.
One could be...
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