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• Care homes deserve better than junk bond opportunists | Nils Pratley

  30-04-2019 20:06
  If the government can act on public services providers such as Carillion, why not on social care?Can we not ban hedge funds and private equity firms from owning care homes? Or, at the very least, write rules to prevent would-be debt wizards playing games of financial leverage in a sector that ought to be a model of balance-sheet stability?Yes, it’s the annual (or so it feels) crisis at a large provider of residential care. Four Seasons, with 17,000 elderly people under its roofs these days
  
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• Four Seasons care home operator collapses into administration

  30-04-2019 18:36
  About 17,000 residents and 22,000 jobs at risk as Labour hits out at government neglectCare homes operator Four Seasons Healthcare has collapsed into administration, sparking anxiety among relatives of its 17,000 residents and criticism from Labour over government funding cuts and the role of financial investors in social care.Four Seasons and the sectors’s regulator, the Care Quality Commission, said they did not expect any disruption to residents’ lives, nor the closure of any of i
  
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• Care Minister: Adult social care staff deserve to be recognised and feel valued

  30-04-2019 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  England’s 1.47 million adult social care staff have been asked to help shape policies aimed at ensuring they are better recognised and valued by their employers. The Minister for Care Caroline Dinenage has called on the adult social care workforce for their views on employee benefits and in the sector, as part of a Government […]
  
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• Clare in the community: comedy gold

  30-04-2019 16:00
  A comedian in the makingContinue reading...
  
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• Claire in the community: comedy gold

  30-04-2019 16:00
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• Anthony Douglas: ‘I survived a miserable childhood. I’ve refused to be beaten since’ | David Brindle

  30-04-2019 14:00
  The outgoing head of Cafcass on his fight to turn around the once ‘disastrous’ family court support service for childrenWhen Anthony Douglas was interviewed for Society Guardian on his first day as chief executive of the quango that represents children in the family courts, he reckoned it might take two or three years to get the then deeply troubled organisation on the right track. As it turned out, MPs were still condemning it as unfit for purpose six years later. Related: Child wel
  
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• Four Seasons care home operator on brink of administration

  30-04-2019 11:51
  About 14,000 residents and 20,000 jobs at risk as rescue talks look likely to fail Care homes operator Four Seasons, which looks after more than 14,000 elderly and vulnerable residents and employs 20,000 people, is reportedly on the verge of administration, with protracted financial rescue talks expected to end in failure.More than a year after complex financial talks began between its US hedge fund lender H/2 Capital and its former private equity owner, Guy Hands’ Terra Firma, Four Season
  
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• Church of Scotland pays £1m in damages to three abused siblings

  30-04-2019 11:45
  Trio among victims of Ian Samson, who ran children’s home in EdinburghThe Church of Scotland has paid £1m in damages to three siblings who were sexually abused by a paedophile who ran a children’s home in Edinburgh.The woman and two men were among the victims of Ian Samson, who was jailed in 2013 for 14 years after being found guilty of 22 rapes and sexual assaults during abuse lasting three decades. Continue reading...
  
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• Clinical manager flies the flag for care homes at top nursing awards

  30-04-2019 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  A clinical manager at a south coast care home provider is in the running for one of the UK’s top professional nursing awards. Colten Care’s Lindsay Rees is the only representative of the private care home sector on the five-strong shortlist for the Nursing Older People category at the RCNi Nurse Awards. Now in their […]
  
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• Grants to help improve lives of older residents tops £600k mark

  30-04-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A small grant funding programme designed to enhance wellbeing for older people living on Anchor Hanover estates across the country £600k mark. Since launching in 2006, the programme has funded a range of activities such as outings, exercise classes and gardening improvements such as raised beds and summer houses. This year Anchor Hanover has extended […]
  
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• Good Care Group gets five-star Outstanding rating from CQC

  30-04-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Good Care Group based in Waterloo, south London, has achieve the highest ratings the Care Quality Commission can give – five Outstanding ratings in all categories. The domiciliary care service was rated Outstanding overall and for being safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. At a previous inspection in 2016 the service was also rated […]
  
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• I am my wife’s carer, but she can’t have sex and I need to satisfy my libido

  30-04-2019 09:00
  She is getting respite care soon and I am excited about having time alone for sexual pleasure – but I feel I must keep it a secret to avoid upsetting herI am a man aged 65 and my wife is 69. We have been married for nearly 25 years. As young people, we were both shy and found it difficult to make relationships, but then we got together and shared many activities, including a happy sex life. Recently, my wife has developed chronic back pain, which has been very debilitating for her. Many ac
  
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• South Gloucestershire specialist care service retains Outstanding rating from CQC

  30-04-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mayo House, a care home for people with learning disabilities and complex needs in Yate, South Gloucestershire, has retained its ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Run by Bristol-based leading social care charity, Milestones Trust, Mayo House is the only learning disability care services in South Gloucestershire to have retained an ‘Outstanding’ rating. […]
  
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