Care news

• Care UK faces legal action unless it pays more than £3m in compensation

  06-12-2018 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made clear to the company, one of the country’s largest care home providers, that it must refund over 1,600 residents who were charged a compulsory upfront ‘administration’ fee of as much as £3,000 – or face legal action.  
  It comes as part of the CMA’s ongoing investigation, launched in 2017, into a number of care homes over concerns that some of their contract terms could breach consumer protection la
  
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• Michelin Star chef brings his lifetime love of food to care home residents

  06-12-2018 13:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catering to the taste buds is one of the UK’s finest chefs, Paul Wright, as he takes up his full-time position as chef at the Malpas based Prospect House residential care home.
  With over 26 years in the catering business the former Gleneagles and Michelin Star chef brings his lifetime love of food to residents with an overhauled menu that reflects residents’ most treasured food memories and preferences together in a dining experience they’ll never forget.
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• 75% of disabled people and their families have no long term support plan

  06-12-2018 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sense deliver their petition to 10 Downing Street. Left to right – Head of Policy Sarah White, CEO Richard Kramer, Parent Inge Ahmad, daughter Noreen Ahmad and staff from Sense charity shops, Carolyn Gee, Pauline Moules- Over two thirds (67%) of families caring for disabled adults with complex needs live in fear of what will happen to their loved one when they are no longer able to provide support; and 3 in 4 (75%) family carers say they have no long-term plan for what will happen when the
  
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