Care homes

Resident at Clarendon Hall creating a stain glass window spider

Care homes celebrate Halloween by having fang-tastic fun

These are care workers who have been sent to jail for various crimes including sex abuse in 2024.

Care workers convicted for sex crimes

Care home invites community to medieval open day

Personal experience Inspires couple to launch home care service

Care homes host ‘Wear It Pink’ day events for Breast Cancer Now

Care worker sexually abused girl knowing victim was unable to consent

Henry Clayton at the wedding blessing with daughter Fiona Butler-Clayton and her husband.

Watch: Care home hosts wedding blessing so dad can give daughter away

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Martin Lewis reveals how pensioners can claim up to £5,600 annually

Bailey-Greetham Clark teaches boxing to care home residents.

Watch: 21-year-old gives boxing lessons to care home residents

A support worker has been issued a warning after causing a woman to fall and pulling her by her armpits. Picture: Google Maps

Care worker dragged vulnerable woman along floor

Poor incontinence care costs NHS over half a billion pounds a year

Will you be eligible for a Covid booster this autumn?

A patient is administered the first Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in London at Croydon University Hospital in December 2020 (Photo Dan Charity - Pool/Getty Images)

Early Covid vaccine rollout amidst new variant concerns - how to book

The government’s care sector watchdog, the Care Inspectorate, has revealed it received 5,910 complaints regarding care facilities in Scotland in 2022/23. Picture: Getty Images

Physical altercations and residents "crying for help" at care home

CQC care home reports have found elderly residents "forgotten about", a chair covered in faeces and one person desperately calling out for help - among other issues.

The horrifying reality of life in "inadequate" care homes

The care home has been fiercely criticised by the CQC. (Picture: Zinkevych/Adobe Stock)

Care home blocking disabled residents in their rooms, CQC finds

Dorothy Selwood, 92, fell when crossing her bedroom in Blossoms Care Home and was left "screaming" for help for 22 minutes. (Credit: Samantha Tyson / SWNS)

Gran, 92, left 'screaming' for help for 22 mins after care home fall
Dorothy Selwood, 92, was unattended to for 22 minutes despite being regarded as a 'high fall risk' by the care facility in Kent
Heather Carrick

Keir Starmer has demanded the Covid-19 inquiry release its findings by the end of the year as he attacked Matt Hancock over a leaked cache of messages sent during the pandemic. Credit: Getty Images

‘Insulting and ghoulish’: Starmer attacks Hancock over leaked messages

Matt Hancock has denied claims he rejected advice to give Covid tests to all residents going into English care homes (Photo: Getty Images)

Matt Hancock disputes claims he ignored care home Covid advice

Thousands of Covid deaths have been registered in care homes across England and Wales this year.

Thousands of Covid deaths in care homes in 2022 - worst areas revealed

Dr Cathy Cardner (left) and Fay Harris (right) took legal action after their fathers died from Covid (Photo: PA)

Care home discharge policy during Covid ruled ‘unlawful’

The winter vomiting bug is highly contagious and causes vomiting and diarrhoea (Photo: Shutterstock)

6 key norovirus symptoms to look for as cases of sickness bug surge

Covid: Care home visitor rules to be eased in England from Monday

All care home workers in England are legally required to have been fully vaccinated by 11 November (Photo: Getty Images)

Thousands of care home staff to lose jobs as Covid jab policy kicks in

Covid vaccinations for staff in care homes will be made mandatory from 11 November (Graphic: Kim Mogg/JPIMedia)

Care home staff ‘should want to get vaccinated’

Some parts of the country will lose up to a fifth of their care home staff in November, according to NHS data

Exclusive: Care homes to lose 40,000 staff as vaccine deadline passes

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

The rollout of rapid-testing in care homes 'failed' according to a study (Getty Images)

Care homes 'failed' by rollout of rapid-result tests
A study author has said that care homes have been failed by a rollout of rapid-result tests
Jemma Crew