RECENT NEWS

Workforce technology startup Sona has raised £1.6m in funding to accelerate the development and adoption of its app for health and social care employees.

Skills for Care has launched a two-month campaign highlighting its online tools, resources and information to support recruitment of social care staff.

Leading not-for-profit care provider MHA has criticised the HMRC after being included on a government ‘named and shamed’ list of 191 companies that broke national minimum wage law.

Care home meals provider apetito has committed to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2040 via challenging interim targets for 2025 and 2035.

New Care has received planning consent for two care facilities, one near Warrington in Cheshire and a second in Guiseley in West Yorkshire.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published operational guidance for mandatory vaccination of people deployed or working in a care home.

Oakland Care has secured a five-year financing package to support the development of purpose-built, premium care homes.

Planning permission has been granted for north-west England’s first nursery within a care setting at Belong's under-construction care village in Chester.

Skills for Care has launched a three-year plan setting out how the workforce development and planning body for social care in England will deliver the organisation’s vision of “supporting people who draw on services to live the lives they choose".

Scottish care provider Morrison Community Care Group (MCCG) has completed the Queens View Harbour Luxury Suites in Troon, Ayrshire and preparations are underway to welcome its first residents this month.

Legal & General has entered into a 15-year joint venture with NatWest Pension Trustee Limited (NWPTL) to invest £500m of equity to build later living communities to be developed and operated by the former’s Inspired Villages subsidiary.

Social care recruitment expert Neil Eastwood has waived the fee permanently for his online training course due to the “unprecedented challenges” faced by employers to fill vacancies.

Care home opening rose by 6.5 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2020, according to a report by CSI Market Intelligence.

The Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester has kicked off a research project to explore the ability of extra care housing to support people living with dementia.

L&M Healthcare is inviting care professionals to attend an open day on 10 August at its pioneering Kitwood House dementia care home near Northwich in Cheshire.

Runwood Homes has rewarded each of its employees with shopping vouchers worth a combined £650,000 as a token of thanks for their dedication during the Covid pandemic.

Octopus Real Estate has raised a further £314m for its fund focusing on UK care homes- bringing its total value over the £1 billion mark - after attracting investors from the UK, Europe and Japan.

Care provider Cornerstone Healthcare has broken ground on its £10m Cale View care home in Wincanton, Somerset.

Retirement community developer McCarthy Stone has appointed Angela Harding as its new services operations director.

Care home construction company Savista Developments has scooped two National Building & Construction Awards for sister company Hallmark Care Homes’ Henley Manor in Oxfordshire.