Key employees are recognised as the mainstay of the sustainable and growing care business.

The culture and vision of a care business should be recognised throughout the business, helping to devise a suitable long-term strategy.

Will Donnelly from Lottie ‘the people’s care company’ comments about the uplift to the NHS-funded nursing care (FNC)

The care sector, like other sectors, has faced enormous challenges in recent years which has left care providers assessing their options...

With the free movement ended between the UK and Europe and the impact of the pandemic we are now seeing a continued shortage of care workers to look after not only an ageing population but the wider social care sector.

Fucrum Care are celebrating five years of delivering expert management and compliance consultancy for care home providers, owners, and managers, and particularly bringing their clients through the challenges of the pandemic.

Centurion are delighted to announce that their new 2022/2023 version of the Guide to the Basics of Care Fees Planning is now available.

We are incredibly thankful to our staff for their unwavering dedication to Signature Dining and look forward to expanding our incredible team as the business continues to grow.  The continued success of Signature Dining has the foundation in a loyal and sustainable team, ensuring all our business partners and the people that they look after have true person-centred care.

From what we are seeing potential candidates for all businesses, including working in social care, are choosing their next role carefully.

For many the last two years have resulted in a re-evaluation of work life balance alongside personal and family commitments, with competition for quality candidates intensified.

The Government has announced an increase in funding for nursing in care homes in an attempt to ease pressure on hospitals working to tackle the Covid backlog.

With the announcement from the Care Quality Commission that it is changing its regulatory framework in April 2023, care home providers, owners and management teams will need to be ahead of the curve when it comes to inspections. Fulcrum Care delves into the current system in place, what changes will be made and what this means for the care sector.

Ensuring compliance for your fire safety systems can be both time consuming and stressful. CQC regulations and Government fire safety legislation requires care homes to ensure fire safety working practices up to current standards, that all fire safety systems are suitable, in working order and tested appropriately, both in house and by a competent fire company. 

With business activity in the care home and wider social care sector at a decade high, Rachael Anstee, Partner at Hazlewoods, considers the growing business within a group structure versus a standalone limited company.