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• Matt Hancock ‘was warned of Covid care home risk in March 2020’

  09-06-2021 21:54
  
  Exclusive: leading UK operators say they repeatedly raised concerns about not testing people discharged from hospitalCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome of the UK’s biggest care home operators have told the Guardian they repeatedly warned Matt Hancock’s department about the risk of not testing people discharged from hospitals into care homes in March 2020.Their claims are likely to increase pressure on the health secretary when he appears before MPs
  
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• Profits from English children’s care homes indefensible, bosses to be told

  09-06-2021 19:09
  
  Head of government review of sector will urge private operators to cut costs and be responsive to children’s needsThe children’s residential care home sector is “broken” and dominated by private companies that rack up excessive profits despite delivering consistently poor outcomes for young people, a government adviser is to say.Josh MacAlister, the head of the government’s review of children’s social care, will warn children’s homes bosses they must cut
  
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• Profit levels in children’s care homes in England indefensible, bosses told

  09-06-2021 19:09
  
  Head of government review of sector urges private operators to cut costs and be responsive to children’s needsThe children’s residential care home market is “broken” and dominated by private companies that rack up excessive profits despite delivering consistently poor outcomes for young people, a government adviser is to say.Josh MacAlister, the head of the government’s review of children’s social care, will warn children’s homes bosses they must cut &ld
  
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• The adoption system isn’t perfect, but it has evolved to protect children | Letters

  09-06-2021 18:28
  
  Anne Porteous shares her perspective on forced adoptions, and Linda Weir and Ann Titman highlight charity work that supports families I read Nina Lopez’s letter (1 June) on adoption with sadness, both because of the example she gave and also because she doesn’t tell the whole story around adoption today. “Forced” is an emotive term and that applies appropriately to those adoptions of the 1960s and 1970s. That 90% of adoptions are forced – ie court ordered – is
  
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• Royal Star & Garter wins prestigious award for outstanding dementia care

  09-06-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Royal Star & Garter receives a top national award for its outstanding dementia care.The charity won the Professional Excellence category at the Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Hero Awards on Thursday 20 May.Royal Star & Garter provides loving, compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia, from Homes in Solihull, Surbiton and High Wycombe.Judges were impressed at how staff across the Homes have been able to meet the challenges posed by th
  
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• Ethical investor and extra care operator join forces to unveil £300m push for new generation of ultra-sustainable assisted living communities

  09-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ethical investor and extra care operator join forces to deliver their first net zero scheme in Bristol, with sights set on series of further communities creating as many as 1,000 later-living homesFORE Partnership, the purpose-driven, transformational real estate investment firm, has formed a joint venture with extra care operator Amicala to deliver a new generation of ultra-sustainable later living developments in southern and central England.The JV is actively seeking opportunities to develop
  
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• Benefits claimants suffering under end-of-life DWP rule

  09-06-2021 07:01
  
  Terminally ill people in UK spending final weeks struggling to get social security help as six-month rule demands ‘proof’ of life expectancyMore than 100 terminally ill people are each month being rejected for benefits despite having less than six months to live, and many are spending their final weeks fighting in vain for social security support, say campaigners.The Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association charities have called for an urgent review of Department for Wor
  
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