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Jul 8, 2022
Caring for Carers
In its latest State of Caring Report, Care UK found that: 1 in 8 UK adults or around 6.5 million people are providing unpaid care to an...
Jul 8, 2022
Retirement Life Expectancy in Decline
Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that average life expectancy for retirees in the UK is now declining. The latest...
Jul 5, 2022
Care Bed Occupancy
The number of care home residents in the year to February 2022 occupied 77.8% of available beds. Source: ONS
Jul 4, 2022
Holiday Carer as Allowable Expense
A council failed to adequately take into account a man’s circumstances in deciding not to disregard the costs of a holiday carer from his...
Jul 1, 2022
Haphazard Care Development
Sarah McClinton, who has taken up the presidency of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), reflected on almost a...
Jun 30, 2022
Carers at breaking point
Carers UK chief executive Helen Walker believes that even more pressure is being loaded on exhausted carers who were already at breaking...
Jun 29, 2022
Care home resident numbers fall
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed that over the last year, the number of care home residents has declined by...
Jun 28, 2022
Care Home Acquisitions in Northern Ireland
Beaumont Care Homes have struck a deal to buy 29 Four Seasons Health Care sites in Northern Ireland for £36m, joint administrators have...
Jun 27, 2022
65,000 waiting at least six months for assessment
The latest survey on the care sector from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has found that: 506,131 people...
Jun 23, 2022
Council care fee increase to put vulnerable at risk
Care England has criticised Telford and Wrekin Council’s uplift increases of 3% for care home rates and 6.6% in domiciliary care. The...
Jun 22, 2022
Reforms to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLs)
People who have their freedoms restricted to help them receive the best care and treatment will be put at the centre of a new system...
Jun 20, 2022
Fewer care bed trend continues
Compared to the size of the older population, the number of nursing and residential care home beds has consistently fallen over the past...
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