Anchor secures funding to improve heating systems
Revenue grant funding has been secured by Anchor to improve communal heating systems at three of its housing developments.
The not-for-profit provider of specialist housing...
Owner of homecare provider handed slavery and trafficking order
A slavery and trafficking risk order (STRO) has been handed down to the owner of a Leicestershire-based homecare service provider.
Leicester Magistrates’ Court approved an...
Inspired Villages secures permission to deliver retirement community
Inspired Villages has received planning approval to deliver phase one of its Arun Lea retirement community in Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex.
The reversed matters application...
Social care sector’s ability to pass on costs ‘highly constrained’
Employers in low-paying sectors - in particular social care and childcare – are ‘highly constrained’ in their ability to pass on costs.
This was highlighted...
Greystones Nursing Home Ltd fined over failure to protect resident
Greystones Nursing Home Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 after it failed in its duty to protect a resident.
The business, which...
ECHO Supported Living Services to develop new homes
Plans are under way to develop the site of a former pub into nine apartments that will be used to support people with learning...
Salutem fined £100,000 for failing to protect resident
Salutem LD Bidco IV Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £117,000 after failing to provide safe care and treatment to a resident.
The...
Nexus Care Services launch children’s division
Nexus Care Services has launched a social and educational support service for young people aged 13-18.
The division will provide services in and around Sutton...
Council directors of adult social care ‘struggling to find savings’
More than a quarter (29%) of adult social care council directors in England have been asked to make additional in-year savings to their budgets...
Lack of funds resulting in poor commissioning of homecare, report says
Only 12 UK public organisations paid the minimum hourly price for domiciliary care as calculated by the Homecare Association, its latest research has revealed.
Its...