Care Markets

A social care charity has been fined £70,000 after highly sensitive information about the care of four young children was left outside a London...

utsourcing company MITIE made a daring entry into the UK domiciliary care sector last month, snapping up Enara from August Equity for an 11...

Operations director for Cygnet Supported Living, Bronwen Corby discusses the importance of their launch in Harrow.Cygnet Health Care an outsourcing provider to the NHS...

Sean Sullivan, the man brought into Castlebeck to rehabilitate the brand and turnaround the business in the wake of the Winterbourne View scandal, talks...

A report into children’s social care services by the House of Commons Education Select Committee has found that the child protection system does not...

Care home operator ADL plc enjoyed a leap in turnover for the year ended 31 March 2012. The company reported revenues of £7.3m, an increase...

Eleven former staff from Winterbourne View private hospital were sentenced last month for their part in the abuse and neglect that took place at...

Not-for-profit care and housing provider Anchor Trust reported a drop in revenues for the year ended 31 March 2012. Total turnover stood at £267.5m, a...

The number of patients being placed in detention and receiving Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) increased in 2011/12 according to a report by the Health...

A report published last month has found that personalisation in care is rapidly increasing’. The findings come after the latest figures on direct payments and self-directed care from NASCIS (National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service) revealed that the vast majority of personal budgets are being held by councils and are being spent on behalf of service users rather than being given in the form of direct payments (CCMn October 2012). The number of people using self directed support during 2011/12 was 605,739, an increase of 38% since 2010/11; and 192,334 people received a direct payment, an increase of 9% on 2010/11. Around 43% of people using social care now receive self directed support. The review was conducted by Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care (TEASC), a body comprising leading agencies concerned with the commissioning, management and regulation of social care in England.