WHAT’S NEW?
EXCITING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ELDERLY
CARE SECTOR Following the acquisition of the operating business that previously had been operated by Caring Homes, the newly formed Aria Care Group is officially launching.
The acquisition unites the existing property ownership of 50 homes to the operating business, bringing long-term stability for Aria Care Group that will now be strengthened by a substantive investment programme encompassing refresh and refurbishment through many of its services.
Aria’s objective is to become the leading care provider in each of its locations, as well as becoming an employer of choice with excellent career development opportunities and working environments.
Caroline Roberts, CEO at Aria Care, said: “We are thrilled to introduce our new brand which reflects our commitment to providing excellent care and delivering a quality lifestyle in our communities.
“We are delivering a service that our residents and families can trust. We feel our new motto, Care from The Heart, reflects our dedication."
The newly formed executive team at Aria Care has many years of experience in the health and social care sector and will guide the delivery of exceptional service with a compassionate touch.
www.ariacare.co.uk Caroline Roberts
NCF RESPONDS TO GOVERNMENT
REFORM ANNOUNCEMENT The National Care Forum (NCF), the association for not-for- profit social care and support organisations, is calling on the government to honour its pledges to reform adult social care and listen to the voices of people accessing and working in it, following the publication of the government’s ‘next steps for reform’ and the findings of the Hewitt Review.
The government’s plans significantly reduce the promised support for the social care workforce and people drawing upon care, by cutting the original £1.7bn set aside in its White Paper People at the Heart of Care to £572m. This includes a reduction of the £500m originally set aside for workforce training, qualifications and wellbeing to £250m and the axing of the £300m set aside to provide more choice in housing and support options, at the same time as announcing the Older Person’s Housing Taskforce launch this spring. This all comes on top of the delay to the £2.2bn cap on care costs and the reduction in the fair cost of care money made in the Autumn Statement, from £1.36bn to £486m.
Responding to the announcement, Professor Vic Rayner OBE, CEO of the NCF said: “The People at the Heart of Care reforms are in tatters. Yet again the government has repackaged and reduced existing promises of support and funding, only to announce them as if they are new. It has now been 16 months since People at the Heart of Care was first published and so far, nothing substantial has been delivered in that time apart from delays and very significant reductions in the ambition of the reforms.
“At a time when the workforce is facing unprecedented recruitment and retention challenges, and on the same day that the Hewitt Review recommends the creation of a workforce plan for adult social care, it is unconscionable that the government would reduce workforce funding and axe
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Professor Vic Rayner OBE
all wellbeing measures. The Hewitt Review calls for a shiſt towards prevention by Integrated Care Systems – this can’t be done without investing in adult social care. The government’s actions so far do nothing to stop growing unmet need or to combat shrinking capacity in the wider system.”
Prof. Rayner continued: “The announcements completely undermine the original vision of person-centred reform. People no longer appear to be at heart of the reforms and no attempt has been made to co-produce this new plan with either people working in adult social care, or those seeking to draw upon it. Social care reform stays in the slow lane despite the promises made 16 months ago. It is clearly time for a much more ambitious vision for social care shaped by those who draw on it and those who work so hard to provide it, to enable independent lives – we need a rethink and we need action now, not a diluted repackaging of disappointing announcements.”
www.nationalcareforum.org.uk www.tomorrowscare.co.uk
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