RECENT NEWS

Digital bank OakNorth has provided an £87.6m property investment facility to specialist retirement living developer Elysian Residences.

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has announced the sale of West Lodge Care Home in Crook, Durham.

The Deputy Mayor of Wakefield has officially opened Fairwood Fields Care Home – part of the Crystal Care Collection – in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

Octopus Capital has raised £60m for its Octopus Healthcare Fund from LGPS Central (LGPSC) and Knight Frank Investment Management.

Provider Caron Group has acquired three Welsh care homes from Priory Group in a deal brokered by specialist business property adviser Montane Care.

The Vegetarian for Life (VfL) Awards for Excellence in Vegetarian and Vegan Care Catering were held in October in the Jubilee Room at the Houses of Parliament.

CQC Chief Executive Sir Julian Hartley has stepped down with immediate effect after less than 12 months in the role.

The Social Care Institute for Excellence has responded to the new Carers UK report, ‘State of Caring 2025: The cost of caring – the impact of caring across carers’ lives.’

Skills for Care to launch ‘Building allyship’ programme for social care leaders and managers.

Brockworth Care Centre in Gloucester has been purchased by Ashberry Care Homes, which now owns nine homes across England and South Wales.

Waterhaven Place in Chichester has received a ‘Most Improved Space’ award in the Connaught in Bloom competition.

Boutique Care Homes has celebrated the topping out of Martello Manor, its new purpose-built care home in Hythe.

Family-run care group CHD Living has acquired and transformed a care home in Woking, Surrey.

Cayton View Care Home in Scarborough has become the first in the world to officially join the Freemasons’ new ‘Masonic Aware’ initiative.

A key milestone has been reached in the development of St Thomas’ Gardens – an intergenerational residential community in Stockport.

Eleven Greensleeves Care homes have recently achieved the prestigious Gold Standards Framework (GSF) accreditation for excellence in palliative and end-of-life care.

Not-for-profit later-living provider, Anchor has celebrated the topping out of its newest affordable housing development in Edwalton, Nottinghamshire.

Oakland Care has launched its ‘Support a School' campaign, which will benefit seven schools across London and the South East.

Retirement living developer Elysian Residences has secured a £16m loan from digital bank OakNorth and real estate lender REL Finance.

South East-based provider Integrum Care Group has expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of Swanborough House in Brighton.