The care sector skills shortage has been spoken about for some time. Employers are finding it increasingly hard to retain the best people. Coupled with long onboarding times this can cause owners and managers real resourcing problems. With staff turnover ...

Lifting and manual labour is a part of many carers’ day-to-day responsibilities, and with this comes the risk of injury and accident. Learning how to prevent these injuries and where to recognise the likelihood of them occurring is an essential ...

According to the CQC, a survey which polled over 1,000 adults who were responsible for choosing care either for themselves or a loved one over the last three years, highlighted that 70% of people found it more stressful than choosing ...

In May this year, former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, called for a legal requirement for every care home in Britain to be fitted with surveillance cameras to protect residents. He suggested that: “Requiring the public parts of care homes to ...

By Laura Hannah, associate solicitor at national law firm Stephensons It was recently reported that an 82-year-old woman was permitted to register as a manager of a 25 bed care home for elderly residents by the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) ...

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 ...

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 ...