News Hallmark acquires Embrace care home
Hallmark Care Homes has acquired Ty Porth, a former Embrace Group care home in Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales. The new home is the 17th to join the Hallmark family and will represent a proud addition for the care organisation that currently provides residential, dementia and nursing care to over 1000 people across England and Wales. The sale of Ty Porth, which provides care
to 80 residents and has a compliant CSSIW rating, was handled by Christie & Co and received significant interest from other care operators. Avnish Goyal, managing director, Hallmark
Care Homes, says: “Ty Porth Care Home is an excellent care home that shares Hallmark Care
Homes’ values and commitment to delivering high quality relationship centred care. “We are delighted that Ty Porth has joined the Hallmark family of homes and we look forward to getting to know the residents, team members, friends and relatives in the coming months.” Martin Gould, head of brokerage for care at Christie & Co, says: “We’re delighted Hallmark Care Homes has acquired the business, further expanding its presence in Wales where it has been operating for 20 years. The sale reflects the demand in Wales for care homes with strong occupancy levels that serve the local community well. We wish Hallmark all the best with the new acquisition.”
Ty Porth Care Home in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Care UK named best residential care provider CQC’s Andrea Sutcliffe is awarded a CBE
Care UK colleagues are celebrating after winning an award in one of the two Residential Care Provider categories at the prestigious 12th National LaingBuisson Awards. The LaingBuisson Awards are held annually and recognise the most inspiring and innovative work in the health and social care sector. The Residential Care Provider award pays
tribute to organisations that have demonstrated outstanding residential or nursing care with a focus on engagement with residents. Care UK Residential Care Services was also shortlisted in two other categories for dementia care and public/private partnerships. Andrew Knight, managing director for Care UK’s Residential Care Services, says: “We are honoured to have received such a high accolade and fantastic recognition for the care we provide. Our vision of supporting residents to live fulfilling lives is hugely important and always at the heart of everything we do. It’s a
Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in recognition of her achievements and public service spanning over 30 years. Sutcliffe says: “I feel incredibly lucky and
Care UK’s Tony Weedon and Jacqui White collect the trophy for the LaingBuisson Residential Care Provider award 2017
result of the compassion and dedication of our teams that this award win has been possible. I’m incredibly proud of every individual colleague.”
Larkfleet starts work on retirement homes
Larkfleet Homes has started construction work on a ‘continuing care retirement community’ (CCRC) in Oakham, Rutland. It will provide 62 one and two bedroom homes for ‘independent living’, 54 properties for ‘assisted living’ for people with particular care needs and a 60-bed specialist care home for people with dementia. The CCRC is part of Larkfleet’s Oakham
Heights development – a major urban expansion of Oakham being built on land between the Oakham bypass and Barleythorpe Road. The independent living retirement village will be developed under Larkfleet’s award-
winning ‘The Croft’ brand. Larkfleet’s first development under the brand at Bourne won a Silver Award in the keenly-contested Best Retirement Development category in the prestigious WhatHouse? Awards in 2014. The following year The Croft at Baston was shortlisted for the same award and was named runner-up in the HouseBuilder Awards for best retirement housing. In total, more than 800 high quality homes – including ‘affordable’ homes for local people – will eventually be constructed in several phases at Oakham Heights as part of a development programme running until around 2027.
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very grateful to be honoured in this way. Really, it is a tribute to the dedication and commitment of my team and colleagues at CQC who work so hard to improve the quality of life of people using adult social care services, their families and carers. I would like to thank everyone at CQC for making this possible and my husband David, my mum and dad, family and friends for their support, love and understanding. Andrea joined CQC in October 2013 where she leads on the regulation and inspection of adult social care services in England, including care homes and domiciliary care. Last year, she led the completion of the initial round of comprehensive inspections of these services, which for the first time were rated ‘outstanding’, ‘good’, ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’. Andrea is also responsible for the
registration team supporting all health and care sectors, and in collaboration with many others had a key role in the development of Quality Matters, the adult social care sector wide commitment to quality, which launched in July 2017. Prior to becoming chief inspector of adult
social care, Andrea was chief executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and before that, chief executive of the Appointments Commission.
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