Housing with care scheme in Blackburn opens for applications
The Albion Mill housing with care development scheme in Blackburn is moving into its final construction phase. The scheme is…
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Care homes to put regular visits on hold during October
North Yorkshire’s care homes are being advised to limit routine visiting during October in an effort to protect residents as…
Kirsty Woodard: The invisible non-grannies
Kirsty Woodard from Ageing Without Children Consultancy discusses the danger of branding all older people ‘grannies’. I often describe people…
Older people in danger of being left behind by social care reform
The UK housing with care sector has issued an urgent challenge to the Labour Party, warning that older people are…
Infection Control Fund extended
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced plans to extend the Infection Control Fund to help care…
Sector missing opportunities to improve adult care services, Ombudsman reports
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is calling for more to be done to help the adult social care…
Pension Credit take-up ‘woefully low’
The failure to deliver Pension Credit to 1.06m older people who are entitled to it is costing the health and…
Labour says government has weeks to put winter care home plan in place
Labour says the government is at risk of repeating past mistakes in care homes. Following reports of the increased spread…
