Apetito, creator and supplier of meals for the health and social care sector, has been presented with its Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, by Mrs Sarah Troughton, The Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. This award recognises apetito’s commitment to conducting ...

Retirement Communities have a major role to play in meeting the housing and care needs of our ageing population. The Government is committed to helping deliver more of them and they will feature in the Social Care Green Paper when ...

A new report by VODG member Hft sets out the untapped economic potential that could be unleashed through a learning disability sector deal to strengthen investment in assistive technology.  As government renews its focus on the industrial strategy, which so ...

It’s time celebrate all that is good about people who work in care with the second annual Professional Care Workers’ Day on the 4th of September. The social care sector has been undervalued: despite delivering amazing care in a difficult ...

Responding to new analysis by the Alzheimer’s Society on how much people with dementia have had to pay for their care since the social care green paper was first announced in March 2017, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community ...

A group of students are celebrating their achievement after graduating from a course that prepares them for the workplace. Ace@Optalis is a course run by Wokingham-based social care provider Optalis through its Supported Employment Service. The aim of the course ...

New research from AIG Life shows nearly half of adults would be willing to save into a special fund to pay for any care they might need in later life as the debate over how to afford the UK’s social ...

There has been an alarming increase in the number of serious injuries reported by care homes in England according to data from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and revealed by the Sunday Telegraph. In total, almost 290,000 reports of serious ...

Adult social care’s 21,200 registered managers and their deputies are in line to benefit from £3 million through the Workforce Development Fund (WDF) that’s specifically earmarked for the development of the skills and knowledge they need to lead high quality ...

New analysis published today (Tuesday 9 July) by Alzheimer’s Society reveals people living with dementia have had to spend almost £15bn of their own money on social care since Government reforms were first promised in March 2017. Alzheimer’s Society’s shocking ...