RECENT NEWS

An overwhelming majority of social care workers say their care employer is experiencing staff shortages with burnout, overwork and pay among the main reasons cited, according to UNISON.

New Care has opened its £15m Bridgewater Manor care home in Worsley in the City of Salford.

Midlands-based care home developer Urban Village Healthcare has filed plans for a 70-bed care home with seven assisted living apartments in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Avery Healthcare has been given the all-clear to build a 66-bed care home in Godmanchester in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire.

MPs have voted in favour of a controversial amendment to the government's social care funding reforms.

Silbury Finance has issued a £39.3m loan for Elysian Residences’ retirement village in Tunbridge Wells, Kent incorporating 89 luxury apartments, penthouses and hotel-style facilities.

Care UK has been granted planning permission to build a 60-bed care home in Wilmslow on appeal.

London wallcovering outfit ATADesigns has won an award for its music wall mural at Towerview Care’s Trent Court care home in Burton upon Trent.

Skills for Care has officially launched the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS), which aims to be the leading source of workforce intelligence for the sector.

Warwick Business School (WBS), University College London and National Care Forum (NCF) are to study how Covid-19 has affected older people’s care homes and experience of working in them.

A new organisation has launched to support social care workers and recognise their dedication and personal sacrifices.

Sir Andrew Dilnot, architect of the ‘cap’ on social care funding adopted by the government, has criticised changes to sector reforms that will hit the less well off.

Skills for Care has appointed former Hampshire County Council chief executive John Coughlan as its new chair of trustees.

Evermore Care Homes has kicked off construction of its £15m Astley View development in Chorley, Lancashire.

Dementia specialist care operator Belong has appointed Patrick Butler as the general manager of its new village in Chester.

Public trust in care home safety has almost doubled in the past year according to a survey by specialist dementia care provider Vida Healthcare.

Construction specialist Stepnell has kicked off construction at two multimillion-pound care facilities in the Midlands.

Hallmark Care Homes has promoted Aneurin Brown to chief operating officer (COO) from group operations director.

Social care staff in England should be offered a recruitment or retention bonus of at least £500 ahead of the “most difficult winter ever” for the health service, according to NHS Providers.

Leading provider Care UK has appointed senior Nuffield Health executive Martin Friend to its newly created role of chief operating officer (COO).