Care Markets

The National Care Forum (NCF) is calling on the government to re-introduce a care ratings system after discrepancies were found between Care Quality Commission...

Southampton city council has been ordered to reimburse the family of an elderly woman who were wrongly charged top-up’ fees for residential care. The Local Government Ombudsman ruled that, in line with government guidance, because no accommodation was available at the council’s usual rate’, the local authority should have paid to accommodate the woman elsewhere and should not have sought additional fees beyond the assessed contribution.

Foster Care Associates (FCA) has recorded the same revenues of £106.1m for the year ended 31 December 2011 as it did for the previous...

Hallmark Care Homes reported revenues of £40.3m, an increase of 9% on the previous year’s £36.9m, for the year ended 31 March 2011 thanks...

Lisa Denison has been promoted to the new role of group training manager at MMCG & Countrywide Care Homes from 1 November. She will...

Northern Ireland’s children’s commissioner has said young people with learning disabilities face a flawed system when moving into adult services. In a review of services,...

Somerset county council has increased its social care spend by £1.4m to keep up with the rising number of children going into care in...

The Elder Homes Group has bought back Basford Hurst Park Nursing and Residential Home in Cheddleton, Staffordshire for £3.2m. The group, which owned the 85-bed...

The NHS Confederation warned last month that it cannot plug the £2bn a year funding gap for social care.The report, entitled, Papering over the...

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has ordered Fairhold Homes Ltd to stop charging the ‘large’ exit fees it levies clients which are payable...