RECENT NEWS

The UK government’s £600m care home Infection Control Fund is unnecessarily bureaucratic and places an intolerable burden on providers and local authorities, according to the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS).

The Relatives & Residents Association (RRA) and the National Care Forum (NCF) have issued a joint statement setting out good practice relating to communication between care providers and the families of their residents during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Derbyshire County Council (DCC) has reversed the planned closure of seven care homes after it pledged no facility run by the local authority will close by 2022.

CleanedUp is to supply permanent hand sanitiser stations to all Four Seasons Health Care homes across the UK.

More than three-quarters of care home residents have yet to receive a Covid-19 test despite a government target to test all by early June, according to The Data Analysis Bureau (T-DAB) and Person Centred Software.

Wiltshire provider Coate Water Care has acquired a new property in Devizes named Avebury House.

South-east England provider Oakland Care is introducing summer houses to facilitate visits during lockdown.

Campaigners are calling for financial aid earmarked by central government for social care to be given directly to providers to prevent insolvency as they battle Covid-19.

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged by a House of Lords select committee to reform funding of social care.

North Yorkshire specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare has appointed Gil Chimon manager of its Vida Grange home in Pannal near Harrogate.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched an online platform designed to fast-track recruitment into the adult social care sector.

The UK government needs to take urgent action to encourage post-Covid investment in senior living accommodation, according to law firm Boodle Hatfield.

The number of deaths involving Covid-19 in care homes in England and Wales has risen 14% to 11,644, according to the latest weekly data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Representative body Independent Care Group (ICG) has called for an industry task force to lead an overhaul of the British care system in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Making Space has won the right to provide care at the £11m Harpers Green extra care housing scheme in Warrington in Cheshire.

Almost a third of people are less likely to want to put their relative in a care home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a poll commissioned by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Policy Exchange thinktanks.​

Care provider HC-One has pledged to award full Covid-19 sick pay to its workers who are self-isolating while waiting for a test.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spoken to care workers from across the UK to thank them for their efforts to look after vulnerable residents during the coronavirus crisis.

The Independent Care Group (ICG) has dubbed reports that the UK government shelved plans to reform social care before the Covid-19 pandemic a “scandal”.

The British Psychological Society (BPS) has published guidance to support care professionals to meet the psychological needs of people with learning and intellectual disabilities, their families and carers during the Covid-19 pandemic.