RECENT NEWS

Care home meals provider apetito has launched a free guide to care home catering as staff shortages and rising costs continue to impact the social care sector.

Methodist Homes (MHA), the country’s largest charitable care provider, has announced a pay increase of five per cent for all its staff, meaning all employees will be paid above £10 an hour.

Skills for Care has launched the #ManagingChange campaign - a series of activities to support social care leaders with managing change.

Hallmark Care Homes has reached the topping out stage of its 74-bed development in Angmering, West Sussex – the care provider’s 20th care home.

Dementia care specialist Belong has appointed a theatre and drama professional as experience coordinator at its Macclesfield facility.

New Care has reached the halfway stage of construction of its £15m care home in Lymm, Cheshire and is on track for practical completion in November.

Signature Senior Lifestyle is celebrating the graduation of their first cohort of five nursing associates across four of its care homes.

Retirement community developer McCarthy Stone is to build 40 new sites in full using modern methods of construction (MMC) that reduce environmental footprint and build time.

Four Seasons Health Care chief executive Jeremy Richardson has resigned his post and is expected to leave the business in April.

The government has confirmed plans for a cross-department task force on housing for older people, including a strong focus on housing with care.

A new fund established by ActivumSG Capital Management has made it first investment by establishing a platform to develop and operate retirement villages in the UK.

WCS Care has won a national construction industry award for its £7.5m Woodside Care Village in Warwick.

The government has come under heavy criticism from the social care sector after announcing regulations making vaccines a condition of deployment for care home staff in England will be revoked.

A Warwickshire based care home has undergone a refurbishment to maintain and update the home in order for them to provide the best care possible for residents.

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has brought to market Malvern House nursing & residential home in Saltash, Cornwall with an asking price of £1.35m.

Hallmark Care Homes has appointed published academic Dr. Isabelle Latham as its researcher in residence in a pioneering move understood to be a first for the sector.

The government is expected to announce a U-turn on mandatory Covid vaccinations for health and social care workers in England.

Cheshire-based provider New Care is set to complete its £15m care home in the Adel suburb of Leeds in early April.

Property developer Frontier Estates and care operator Barchester Healthcare’s scheme, Snowdrop Place in Botley near Southampton, has been shortlisted in the Best Architectural Design category in the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2022.

Software specialist Carebeans has secured a significant six-figure equity Investment for their leading social care management software from Liverpool-based lender MSIF and the Development Bank of Wales.