In 2017, research conducted for carers week found that 74% of the UK public feel that carers are not sufficiently valued by society, with an even higher 83% of those who have previously had a caring role agreeing that carers ...

Our working population has never been so high at over 31 million which is good news, right? How do we perceive the management of our most precious resource, our staff? • Have your resources increased • Have your budgets increased ...

Local councils should no longer take personal injury settlements into account when deciding whether to pay for the care of severely disabled people, according to a leading Midlands law firm. The comments from Thursfields Solicitors come after the High Court ...

Responding to research by Prestige Nursing + Care showing that the average annual cost of a care home in Great Britain has increased by 9.6% between 2016 and 2017, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing ...

Half of all workers aged 40-64 – nearly eight million people – do not expect to have enough money to stop work and retire when they reach their State Pension Age, according to new YouGov research for the Charity Age ...

The government has announced a further one-month suspension of minimum wage enforcement concerning sleep-in shifts in the social care sector to minimise disruption to the sector and seek to ensure workers receive the wages they are owed. This follows July’s ...

Healthcare group, Bupa, is set to sell almost half of its care homes in a deal that is expected be in the region of £450 million. The potential buyer for the 150 care homes is the former chief executive of ...

  Care UK, has moved a step closer to delivering a new care home in Windsor, with a ‘topping out’ ceremony held on site to mark the latest construction milestone. The new Care UK home, which will offer views of ...

Sleep-ins have been a topic of controversy for some time, but the issue has become more pressing recently with escalating costs in the sector and, coupled with a new approach by HMRC to enforce payment of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for ...

Buying or selling a care home requires input from specialist legal advisors to ensure that you do not fall foul of the various regulatory hurdles you will need to overcome. It is essential to ensure that you appoint lawyers who ...