Ambient Support has appointed Naomi Atkinson as director of operations.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £20 million loan to Phoenix Learning and Care.

The Care Quality Commission has appointed James Bullion as interim chief inspector of adult social care and integrated care.

Residential teen mental health clinic Learn 2 Live has appointed Peter Crascall as clinical director.

National Care Group, a provider of care and support services to vulnerable adults, has acquired Nexus-Support, a specialist accommodation and support provider.

The seniors housing sector is becoming increasingly popular in the UK with investors and demographic trends aiding its growth.  Ahead of HealthInvestor’s Senior Housing Awards, we speak to Tom Scaife, Michael Voges and Nick Thackray to find out more about the current state of integrated retirement communities and what the future has in store.

Domiciliary care provider Promedica24 has appointed Gillian Louggar as registered manager.

Care provider HC-One has earmarked £32.5 million to increase its employees’ wages.

Four Seasons Health Care has reported “significant market interest” in its sale of 111 freehold care homes in England, Scotland and Jersey.

We sat down with Paul Hayes, CEO of Sonderwell, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of bringing founder/owner organisations together.

Domiciliary care and supported living group Optimo Care Group has completed two new acquisitions. We talk to Ben Hales, Optimo's head of M&A to find out more.

Adlington Management Services is doubling in size as it takes on six more retirement communities this month.

Liaise has acquired eight new homes in Norfolk from Jeesal Residential Care Services Group.

Home care company Ashridge Home Care has appointed Louise Joslin as managing director. 

The funding promised for the social care workforce in England has been halved, the government has confirmed.

Later-living developer and operator Untold Living has appointed Amy Herbert as director of operations.

Puma Property Finance has provided new funding to care home developer LNT Care Developments Group to finance three purpose-built care homes.

The Aberdeenshire Council is taking over the operations of Balhousie Huntly, HealthInvestor hears from a Scottish source.

Target Healthcare has disposed of its four care homes in Northern Ireland.

Athena Care Homes, a family-run care home company based in East Anglia, has appointed Ben Wright as finance director.

Paul Najsarek has been appointed as the interim local government and social care ombudsman.

Retirement villages provider Audley Group has appointed two of its senior management team to the executive board.

Salutem Care and Education has promoted Chris Brown as its divisional director for education.

Civitas Investment Management has appointed Lisa Feifer as head of investor relations.

Adlington Retirement Living has appointed Sarah Chadwick as head of marketing and Karen McDonald as senior sales progressor.

Apposite Capital is said to be exiting Swanton Care & Community to DW Healthcare Partners, this publication hears from two sources.

BGF has announced that it has exited its investment in A Wilderness Way.

Renaissance Care has taken over the management of Riverside care home in Aberdeen.

Gold Care Homes has acquired Sonnet Care Homes which comprises two homes in Bocking, Essex: St Mary’s Court and The New Deanery.

Cornerstone Healthcare appoints Jonathan Spencer as its NAPPI (Non-Abusive Psychological and Physical Intervention) trainer.

Milewood Healthcare has appointed Richard Jackson as chief executive of its residential care and supported living services.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £6 million loan to Jersey care home provider LV Care Group.

The Montreux Fixed Yield Fund, a fund managed by investment firm Montreux Capital Management, is acquiring Zero Three Care.

Care home developer Angela Swift Developments is selling three homes to care home provider Lovett Care, this publication can reveal.

Adult care provider Key2 has been renamed Horizon Supported Accommodation as it completes its integration into specialist education and supported accommodation provider Horizon Care & Education.

Institutional investors need to expand their understanding of the social care sector in order to deliver a positive social impact and sustainable returns as interest in the asset class surges.

Liaise Group has appointed Deborah Cotton-Soares as director of quality and governance.

Adult social care services provider Consensus Support has appointed Emma Reeve as managing director.

Civitas Social Housing has closed a new five-year term debt facility of £70.875 million with a major European bank lender.

The Younas Family Group has taken over the freehold ownership of six homes for older people in the North of England and the Midlands.

Croydon-based rehabilitation and care management provider HCML has appointed Pauline Cunningham as head of HR.

Home care services provider Optimo Care Group has acquired Stepping Stones Services, a supported living provider based in Rochdale.

It’s just over one year since Grosvenor Health and Social Care was sold to Weight Partners Capital marking one of the biggest sales of its kind in the country. Grosvenor’s founder Ravi Bains discusses social care market from an investment point of view, valuations, ethical investing, challenges and opportunities.

Orchard Care Homes, which provides care homes in the North of England and the Midlands, has appointed Richard Wormwell as head of recruitment.

Investment company BGF has invested £3.4 million into care home group BN Care.

Family-run care provider Curaa has acquired Ashview Nursing Home in Widford.

Addleshaw Goddard’s afternoon discussion on sustainable social care in cooperation with BKR Care Consultancy brought together an array of experts, including business leaders and industry advisors, to discuss proactive sustainability strategies and new initiatives to ultimately improve quality of care. Zina Fragkiadaki reports.

RCB Bonds has launched the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Care Company 6.25% Sustainable Bonds due 2029.

Athena Care Homes has appointed Richard Shaw as a project manager to lead the estates team.

Robert Kilgour, founder and executive chairman of Renaissance Care in Scotland, is featured in the January issue of our sister publication Caring Times. He talks about the "fundamental differences" in social care between Scotland and England, particularly in funding and staffing since devolution and the establishment of the Scottish Parliament.

Boutique Cares Home has appointed David Lobb as land director.

Pan-European care home operator Orpea has announced its financial restructuring plan. We speak to France-based Yi Zhong, FRM Equity Research Analyst at AlphaValue to find out more.

Higher self-funder intakes have driven a £100 rise in weekly care home fees over the past two years.

Meallmore group has appointed William Narvaez as care home manager of Grove Care Home in Kemnay in Aberdeenshire.

Orpea has resumed restructuring talks with creditors and requested to suspend listing of its shares from the Paris stock market.

The healthcare real estate alternative lending market is booming on the back of traditional bank lending conditions getting tougher and liquidity becoming more scarce due to soaring interest rates putting pressure on valuations. We caught up with Elevation, a specialist healthcare real estate investment manager, to find out more about the current trends in the sector and the firm’s plans for future growth.

Silbury Finance has signed off on a £64.3 million loan to support the development of a 124-residence luxury retirement scheme in How Wood, St Albans, being delivered by Elysian Residences.

Later living developer Untold Living has received backing from Matter Real Estate to acquire and develop multiple later living housing schemes nationwide.

Elevation Development Partners, in partnership with PGIM Real Estate and Care Concern Group, has completed the development and sale of a care home in Didcot, to a European asset manager.

Riverstone has acquired a 142-apartment building from St William, part of the Berkeley Group.

Adlington Retirement Living has announced four internal promotions.

Christie & Co analysis has found a 14-year high in the level of demand and volume of care homes transacted by its care division in 2022.

Paris-based for-profit care home operator Orpea Group has appointed Professor Emmanuel Hirsch as ethics vice-president.

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and British Geriatric Society Scotland have responded to the Scottish government’s cabinet secretary for health and social care Humza Yousaf.

New Care has appointed Farai Hanyane as registered manager and Hannah Sparks as deputy manager of its latest care centre, Statham Manor in Lymm, Cheshire.

Envivo Group has rebranded as ivolve Care and Support and acquired learning disability care provider Cavendish Care.

Impact Healthcare REIT has purchased a portfolio of six care homes from Morris Care for £56 million.

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities renewed its call on the Scottish government to pause its National Care Service plans.

Buy and build social care investment group Tristone Healthcare’s has reported that revenue for its portfolio of businesses rose by 40% last year.

Salutem Care and Education has promoted Karen Jackson to director of its children’s services division.

Private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners is splitting Outcomes First Group (OFG) and National Fostering Group (NFG).

Leading Scottish care provider Meallmore has appointed Cillian Hennessey to take over as managing director from Gerry Hennessey, who has retired from his role after 35 years.

Impact Healthcare REIT has agreed an increase in the size, an extension to the term, and a reduction in the margin, of its existing revolving credit facility with Virgin Money.

Learn 2 Live Youth Clinic has acquired Winton House, a former care home site in Stockbridge, Hampshire, from Amesbury Abbey.

Apposite Capital-backed Swanton Care and Community has acquired Wycombe Care and Care Homes for Adults with Disabilities.

Most of Log my Care’s new customers are coming from a ‘no technology’ environment, chief executive Sam Hussain, tells HealthInvestor.

The National Care Forum, the membership organisation for not-for-profit organisations in the care and support sector, has appointed five new board members.

Boutique Care Homes have acquired a care home site in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, which will become the group's fourth home.

Buy and build social care investment group Tristone Healthcare has bought K Bond Healthcare, which is trading as Next Steps, completing a trio of deals in 2022.

Elevation Advisors has completed the initial closing of £330 million in equity commitments for Elevation Healthcare Properties.

BelleVie Care, a home care provider in the Northeast and Thames Valley regions has received £2.15 million in its latest seed and grant funding round.

Historically, retirement living has been linked to communities in the countryside and not in urban areas. Riverstone is changing the game by providing its services in London.

Independent healthcare providers are anticipating strong growth in the NHS and private pay markets in the coming year.

Caring Homes has completed the sale of part of its operations to Santerre Health Investors, this publication can reveal.

Pristine Care Group, a joint venture company controlled by the Younas family, has acquired Broom Lane, a 60-bed purpose-built dementia care home in Rotherham.

Salutem Care and Education has promoted Sally Jobling to the role of divisional director for supported living.

Allegra Care, and Moorfield Group have acquired a care home portfolio.

Scottish care provider Meallmore has appointed Rachel Gothard to the newly created role of people and culture director.

Hallmark Care Homes has invested £1.3 million into a number of winter measures to help staff with the cost of living crisis.

My Life Choice has been acquired by Optimo. Following the deal, the latter expects turnover growth of 30%, this publication is told.

This week we caught up with Anna Hart, health and social care partner at DAC Beachcroft for a Q&A on the impact of the cost of living crisis on the social care sector.

Christie & Co today published its first ‘Care market review 2022’ report, which analyses the transactional healthcare market in the UK.

Learn 2 Live Youth Clinic has secured an undisclosed funding round to acquire and develop its very first site in Hampshire.

Puma Property Finance is providing more than £33 million of development funding to finance care homes in Oxfordshire, West Sussex and Cambridgeshire.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management-backed Riverstone has opened its latest residence, Riverstone Fulham in London.

Hartford Care has acquired two newly built residential care homes located in Aldershot and Swindon.

Senior Living Investment Partners today announced its first retirement community investment via a joint venture with Elysian Residences.

Integrated retirement communities are leading the way in price growth within the later-living sector, according to research by property consultancy Knight Frank,

Apposite Capital-backed Swanton Care and Community has acquired Freedom Care and Support. This is Swanton's ninth acquisition to date.

Holmleigh Care, a supported living, residential, nursing and home care business has appointed Peter Kinsey as executive chair.