ThinCats appoints relationship director for healthcare
Finance provider to mid-sized SMEs – ThinCats – has appointed Darrell Franciosy as its relationship director for healthcare.
He has more than two decades’ experience...
Pay should reflect complexity of care work, survey reveals
Eight in ten people (83%) believe care work is highly skilled and increasingly complex and pay rates should reflect this.
The findings from a Survation...
Person Centred Software acquires training solutions provider
Person Centred Software (PCS) has added to its connected care platform with the acquisition of Redcrier.
With over a decade of experience, Redcrier works with...
Councils overspend on children’s services by more than £750m
Councils overspent on their children’s social care budgets by more than £750m last year because of funding shortages and demand pressures, local government leaders...
EU care workers’ qualifications to be recognised after Brexit
Social care workers who have qualified in the EU or Switzerland will have their training and experience recognised by regulatory bodies after Brexit, the...
Action for Care refused application to vary registration
A tribunal has ruled in favour of the health and care regulator’s decision to refuse an application by Action for Care Ltd to vary...
CQC successfully prosecutes unregistered provider
A domiciliary care provider in Wiltshire has been ordered to pay more than £6,200 by Swindon Magistrates’ Court for not being registered with the...
Rise in number of babies taken into care
The number of newborns subject to care proceedings has more than doubled between 2015 and 2018 in Wales.
For every 10,000 births in the country in...
More than 70% of care workers paid less than real living wage
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of independent sector care workers in England were paid less than the real living wage (RLW), analysis has revealed.
Research by Skills...
CM meets… David Leatherbarrow
Delivering quality outcomes has been central to the work of the National Fostering Agency Group’s chief executive. After lengthy experience in the dental sector...
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