RECENT NEWS

UK care home operators are set to see occupancy rates rise slowly and profits steady as the impacts of the pandemic show promising signs of receding, according to global property adviser Knight Frank.

The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) has launched Integrated Retirement Community (IRC) as a new term for the housing with care sector.

The Department of Health and Social Care has launched a recruitment campaign titled Made With Care across broadcast and social media to encourage people into a career in care.

Employment law solicitors HR Anchor will host a webinar to help guide care provider through the laws on compulsory Covid vaccinations.

Care providers Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare have joined a national government campaign to bolster recruitment in the sector.

Caddick Construction has completed work for Vida Healthcare on the care provider’s £15m Vida Court, a specialist home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire that will welcome people living with dementia from across the UK.

Care homes in England risk losing as many as 60,000 front-line workers after 11 November following the government’s mandatory vaccination policy, according to social care lawyers Royds Withy King.

Ideal Carehomes has officially opened its 27th development, the 66-bed Woodland View care home in Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire.

The health and social care select committee has called on the government to increase funding and policy focus on supporting people with dementia.

Herefordshire Council is to develop a new 80-bed care home in the county due to growing social care needs.

Oakland Care has officially opened its Elsyng House 76-bed luxury care home in Enfield, North London.

Cardiff-based care home construction outfit Castleoak Care Partnerships has ceased trading.

Renaissance Care is tapping into its resident resources to recruit new staff at its 16 care homes across Scotland.

The Care Inspectorate has launched a consultation on a new Corporate Plan that will cover the three-year period from 2022–2025.

Belgian listed REIT Aedifica has established a local team in the UK by acquiring its long-time British asset management partner Layland Walker.

The government is to provide English councils with £1.6 billion of new annual grant funding over the next three years for social care and other services.

The Local Government Association (LGA) and NHS Confederation are calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the Spending Review to provide genuinely new money for social care to help tackle the NHS backlog.

Belgian real estate investment trust outfit Aedifica has acquired the Uplands care home in Shropshire from Marches Care for £11.5m.

Care provider Handsale is to cut the ribbon on its £15m Priesty Fields luxury care home in Cheshire on 15 November.

Care minister Gillian Keegan will next month make a speech on housing-with-care at the Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) conference in London.