Beaumont Care Homes have struck a deal to buy 29 Four Seasons Health Care sites in Northern Ireland for £36m, joint administrators have...

The latest survey on the care sector from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has found that: 506,131 people...

Care England has criticised Telford and Wrekin Council’s uplift increases of 3% for care home rates and 6.6% in domiciliary care. The...

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...

Compared to the size of the older population, the number of nursing and residential care home beds has consistently fallen over the past...

At £17.7 billion as at December 2021, the UK market for Care Homes for Older People has returned, in value terms to a similar value to...

Skills for Care’s latest data on the state of the care workforce in the UK showed vacancies continuing to increase, hitting 10.3% in...

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) has reported that 2 million hours of home care could not be delivered in...

Local government unions have called for an 11% pay rise for social workers to meet the rising cost of living. The pay claim has been made...

The number of people using direct payments has fallen for each of the past four years. Overall, just 26.6% of people drawing on adult...

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Care workers make up around 895,000 of the 1.67 million jobs in the social care sector. Average care worker pay in the independent sector...