RECENT NEWS

Specialist developer Castleoak has broken ground on a luxury 55-bed care home in Seaford, East Sussex to be owned and operated by Barchester Healthcare.

Amaya Care Homes has acquired the Bryn Celyn care home in Maesteg in south Wales from Hallmark Care Homes for £4m.

A drive to expand the use of digital technology in social care is expected to lead to £127m worth of benefits, according to NHS Digital.

Music for Dementia has launched an iOS app and listen again function to make it easier to listen to and personalise its internet-based m4d Radio.

Roche Retirement Living has completed construction of its £3.4m Mexborough Grange retirement living scheme in Methley near Leeds.

The Scottish government has launched a consultation on the creation of a National Care Service to deliver adult social care.

Barchester Healthcare has kicked off construction of the 66-bed Elgar Court care home in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Workforce technology startup Sona has raised £1.6m in funding to accelerate the development and adoption of its app for health and social care employees.

Skills for Care has launched a two-month campaign highlighting its online tools, resources and information to support recruitment of social care staff.

Leading not-for-profit care provider MHA has criticised the HMRC after being included on a government ‘named and shamed’ list of 191 companies that broke national minimum wage law.

Care home meals provider apetito has committed to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2040 via challenging interim targets for 2025 and 2035.

New Care has received planning consent for two care facilities, one near Warrington in Cheshire and a second in Guiseley in West Yorkshire.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published operational guidance for mandatory vaccination of people deployed or working in a care home.

Oakland Care has secured a five-year financing package to support the development of purpose-built, premium care homes.

Planning permission has been granted for north-west England’s first nursery within a care setting at Belong's under-construction care village in Chester.

Skills for Care has launched a three-year plan setting out how the workforce development and planning body for social care in England will deliver the organisation’s vision of “supporting people who draw on services to live the lives they choose".

Scottish care provider Morrison Community Care Group (MCCG) has completed the Queens View Harbour Luxury Suites in Troon, Ayrshire and preparations are underway to welcome its first residents this month.

Legal & General has entered into a 15-year joint venture with NatWest Pension Trustee Limited (NWPTL) to invest £500m of equity to build later living communities to be developed and operated by the former’s Inspired Villages subsidiary.

Social care recruitment expert Neil Eastwood has waived the fee permanently for his online training course due to the “unprecedented challenges” faced by employers to fill vacancies.

Care home opening rose by 6.5 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2020, according to a report by CSI Market Intelligence.