Growth up but profits down at Care Management Group

CMG Investment Holdings Limited, the parent company of Care Management Group, CMG Homes Limited and Belgravia Nursing and Care Bureau Limited, which provides residential...

Winterbourne View to be revamped under new ownership

Glenside Care Group has announced it has acquired the notorious Winterbourne View care home (CCMn July 2011), which was closed after a BBC Panorama...

Private spending on care for older people increases

More older people than ever are paying for residential care, according to new analysis from Age UK, with private spending on social care rising...

Active Assistance acquires Communicare

Active Assistance Group, the August Equity-backed provider of complex and clinical care for adults, has acquired Communicare, which offers specialist care to service users...

LD funding problems highlighted

Three out of four local authorities are facing difficulties in funding services for people with learning disabilities and are either making cuts to services...

Patient Opinion moves into care

Hospital service user feedback website Patient Opinion is to move into adult social care after winning a £160,000 grant from the Department of Health.It...

Ashridge invests in Phoenix

Ashridge Capital has provided £3.4m of funding for a management buyout of Phoenix Learning and Care. Phoenix has three schools and 15 small residential...

Keep children with families – FRG

Family Rights Group (FRG) is calling on the government and local authorities to do more to keep children with their families rather than being...

NMW rise will squeeze profits

Care providers have warned that profits will be significantly hit when the next National Minimum Wage increase comes into force in October this year.Minimum...

Continuum snapped up by Advanced Childcare

Advanced Childcare Limited has bought The Continuum Care and Education Group for an undisclosed sum to create what it claims to be the largest...