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• Art deco-themed Dorset care home celebrates double global success

  11-11-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Colten Care’s interior design team is celebrating a double helping of international recognition for its newly opened Dorset care home, Bourne View. The art deco-themed nursing and residential home in Poole scooped Silver at the World Interiors News WIN awards and a finalist’s place at the SBID International Awards. Both sets of awards are well […]
  
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• We are failing children in care – and they are dying on our streets

  11-11-2019 15:59
  
  There is a lack of support for young people leaving care – but from privatisation of services to inadequate housing, the care system fails children long before the age of 18If one in four young adults found themselves homeless once they turned 18, with 14% sleeping rough, we’d be asking where the hell their families were. But these figures are the reality for young care-leavers. After they cease to be the official responsibility of their local authority on their 18th birthday, the ri
  
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• Flash helps put Northumberland home on fast track to success

  11-11-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Residents and staff at an Alnwick care home are celebrating after bouncing back to a good rating – thanks to the help of a very special retiree. Abbeyfield House on the outskirts of the Northumberland market town was deemed as requiring improvement when it was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) two years ago. […]
  
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• Allegra Care acquires Weston-Super-Mare nursing home

  11-11-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Allegra Care has acquired St George’s Nursing home in Weston-Super-Mare in a deal supported by a seven figure funding package structured by Allied Irish Bank (GB). Located in Weston-Super-Mare, St. George’s Nursing Home is a purpose-built, 66-bed home providing elderly care with nursing and day care. The home opened in 2012 and provides accommodation over […]
  
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• Atherton care village recognised at local hospice awards

  11-11-2019 12:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not-for-profit care village, Belong Atherton, has been recognised in Wigan and Leigh Hospice’s annual Hospice in Your Care Home Awards, winning two categories including, for the fourth year running, the Family Nominated Staff Member of the Year, which once again has gone to the organisation’s lead senior support worker, Julia Cross. Belong also took home […]
  
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• Net Asset Value and update on corporate activity on Target Healthcare

  11-11-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Target Healthcare (LSE: THRL), the UK listed specialist investor in modern, purpose-built care homes, announces that it has agreed the acquisition of eight care homes and 31 retirement apartments, in four separate transactions, for a total consideration of £81.3 million including transaction costs. The acquisitions, which had been identified in advance of the Group’s recent […]
  
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• Final tiles for Towcester care home

  11-11-2019 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The final tiles have been secured on the roof of a new luxury care home in Towcester as part of a traditional topping out ceremony to mark the latest milestone at the development. Caring Homes is delighted to announce that Brook House, our purpose-built care home in Northamptonshire, is due to open in Summer 2020. […]
  
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• Councils 'need billions more to fund adult care as population ages'

  11-11-2019 01:01
  
  IFS puts the hike in costs down to growing numbers of disabled adults and rising wagesCouncils will need billions of pounds in funding increases over the course of the next parliament to finance adult social care, an economic thinktank has found.The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a hike in costs was mainly the result of an ageing population, growing numbers of disabled adults and rising wages. Continue reading...
  
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