RECENT NEWS

Prominent campaigner and former head of the Number Ten Policy Unit Baroness Camilla Cavendish has been appointed by the government to help reform adult social care.

Construction contractor Stepnell has won a contract to build a £9.2m care home in Berkshire for Bracknell Forest Council.

Surrey developer Aspire LPP has been given the green light to build an 82-bed care home in Worthing in West Sussex.

Belgian real estate investment trust outfit Aedifica has agreed to acquire a newbuild 80-bed care home in Congleton in Cheshire for £13m.

England’s adult social care workforce will need to rise by almost a third by 2035 in line with population projections, according to Skills for Care.

The government is said to favour the introduction of mandatory social care contributions paid by people aged 40 and over, according to the Guardian newspaper.

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has set out a nine-point plan for reform of social care.

Plans by the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (RNBT) for a 66-bed care home for veterans have been approved by Portsmouth City Council.

The internet radio station for people living with dementia and their carers launched by the Music for Dementia charity has notched over 30,000 listeners since launching last month.

Mears has entered into a partnership with Cornwall Council to provide 750 extra care homes in a deal worth £150m.

Care UK is preparing to open its completed 68-bed care home in Shinfield near Reading.

Care home residents are set to be reunited with friends and family as visits begin again in England following the publication of long-awaited guidance by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Advinia Health Care is to install green heating systems in multiple care homes in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Mandatory social care insurance appears to be the best option for long-term funding reform, according to the National Care Forum (NCF).

Care England has scotched suggestions that social care organisations should merge to strengthen lobbying efforts for post-Covid sector reform.

Retirement living developer McCarthy and Stone has launched a £100m land acquisition fund as it seeks to redevelop sites occupied by residential care homes, GP surgeries and other medical premises.

The Scottish government has given the green light to plans by Meallmore to build a 65-bed care home in the grounds of a hotel in Aberdeen.

Hampshire County Council has become the first UK local authority to trial so-called cobots – robotic lower back harnesses - in the UK care sector.

Social care organisations like Care England, the National Care Association (NCA), United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) and the National Care Forum (NCF) should merge to strengthen lobbying efforts, according to Independent Care Group (ICG).

Berkley Care has won the right to build a 95-bed care home in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.