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.

Specialist health and social care finance brokers, Chandler & Co provide impartial, bespoke advice whether you are considering an acquisition, refinance, development, expansion, or financial restructuring with access to competitive funding available in the lending market.

With a background drawn from personal experience,  we interviewed Dave Robinson from Centurion highlighting how his personal journey led him to specialise in looking after the vulnerable in our society.

Following its unsuccessful case against Care UK in July 2021 and subsequent withdrawal of proceedings against Barchester, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revised its guidance for care homes on complying with consumer law obligations

Exit and succession planning is all part of a business lifecycle, and for the care home operator, how a business has been structured over the years should be revisited, as part of any discussions around exiting the business in a timely fashion and maximise the net proceeds.

Setting the appropriate succession and exit plan for a care home operator is imperative, safeguarding the future of the business as well as tax planning mitigation.