RECENT NEWS

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has called on the government to urgently bring forward proposals for reforms to sort out social care “for all, once and for all”.

Management service provider Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has notched 5,000 care provider clients by signing up Finchley-based charity Barnet Carers.

Care England has called on the Home Office to reconsider its decision to reject recommendations to place senior care workers and registered managers on the shortage occupation list (SOL).

Hallmark Care Homes has opened a £12m facility near Brentwood in Essex using technology for a virtual event understood to be a first for the care sector during current Covid restrictions.

A coalition of over 60 organisations brought together by the National Care Forum (NCF) has called on the government to ensure care homes are supported to enable visits by families and loved ones during the pandemic.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has frozen fees paid by care providers to cover the costs of regulation for 2021-22.

A new coalition of former ​health and care ministers, employers, trade groups and UNISON has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for an immediate £3.9bn emergency support fund to help the care sector through the pandemic.

Living Plus, part of the Places for People Group, has completed construction of a 60-bed extra care development in Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Care homes across Britain are being encouraged to nominate colleagues to receive recognition in a new programme, CHHW Allstars.

Figures revealed by jobs site GetMyFirstJob show Covid-19 has had a major impact on career preference with a big rise reported in young people wanting to work in health and social care.

John’s Campaign, a group which campaigns for people with dementia to be supported by family carers, has issued court proceedings challenging Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance for visiting in care homes.

Retirement living developer Avantage has secured consent to build a 132-apartment extra care facility in Crewe designed by TODD Architects.

St Monica Trust has released funding to help tackle the long-term implications of Covid-19 on older people, such as the loss of local groups and activities, plus the impact of increased isolation on health and wellbeing.

The National Care Forum (NCF) has relaunched its digital and technology forum to reflect the increase in digital solutions being made available to the care sector during the Covid pandemic.

Hartford Care chief executive Sean Gavin is celebrating his 20th anniversary with the Hampshire-based care provider.

Bellavista Care Homes has acquired the 129-bed Waverley Care Centre in Penarth in south Wales for an undisclosed sum.

Cheshire care provider Vivo Care Choices has been ordered to pay almost £220,000 at Chester Magistrates’ Court following an incident that contributed to an 89-year-old woman’s injury.

Healthcare Homes is nearing completion of a £2.3m dementia-specialist extension at its Fornham House care home near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

The Welsh government has published a ten-year vision for its health and care workforce as part of its ‘A Healthier Wales’ strategic plan.

Government ineptitude and erroneous policy choices combined with pre-existing weak regulation saw Covid-19 hit the social care sector in England like an earthquake, according to a University of Oxford study.