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Client Spotlight: Wilf Ward Family Trust – Creating a culture of excellence
The Wilf Ward Family Trust provides supported living accommodation and residential care services for people with learning disabilities across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Philippa Doyle takes part in the latest podcast for Care Home Management
Philippa Doyle recently joined a panel of specialist lawyers to discuss how care providers can challenge harsher CQC inspections and the conduct of some inspectors.
Hempsons and Eastwoods: our 2020 vision
2020 will be a particularly exciting year for everyone at Hempsons and Eastwoods, as the two firms merge to create a powerful new force in regulatory, disciplinary and healthcare law.
CQC – who regulates the regulator?
CQC – who regulates the regulator? It was disappointing to read in the press that the CQC has found that dozens of its reports are flawed.
Hempsons listed in The Times Best Law Firms 2020
We are delighted to announce that Hempsons has been named as one of The Times’ best law firms for 2020.
Newsflash: Young persons and deprivation of liberty
The Supreme Court has decided parental authority CANNOT be used to authorise the deprivation of liberty of 16 and 17 years olds who lack capacity to consent to arrangements that amount to a deprivation of liberty.
Hempsons welcomes three trainees
We are delighted to announce that three trainee solicitors have started their two-year training period at Hempsons.
Newsflash: Emergency Application to the High Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction to protect a vulnerable adult
Emergency Application to the High Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction to protect a vulnerable adult.
Hempsons shortlisted in the ‘Legal Advisor – Public’ category at the LaingBuisson Awards 2019
We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in the ‘Legal Advisor – Public’ category at the LaingBuisson Awards 2019.
Hempsons’ Social Care Newsbrief Summer 2019
Welcome to the Summer 2019 edition of Hempsons’ Social Care Newsbrief.
Philippa Doyle presents at the Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo 2019
Philippa Doyle spoke at the Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo 2019 and her talk 'CQC Inspections and Reports - when to action, when to challenge' was filmed and is available on YouTube. The session provides valuable information to owners and managers as to how to get the most out of the Factual Accuracy process, the type and range of matters that can be raised and options available to a provider in receipt of an unsatisfactory CQC report, including timely use of the separate CQC complaints process, securing swift re-inspections and how to appeal.
Upcoming legislative changes
With ongoing uncertainty surrounding the final terms under which the UK will leave the EU and whether this will take place on 29 March 2019 as planned or not, it is difficult to predict how Brexit may affect Employment Law. However, for practical purposes it seems likely that EU legislation will remain applicable in the UK (but perhaps on a different constitutional basis) unless or until it is amended by UK legislation. We are not expecting swift changes to Employment law and do not expect to see any significant changes prior to 31 December 2020 (the end of the proposed transition period).
Sleep-ins – what’s next?
The Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake is not yet the final word on sleep-ins.
The Independent Care Group
Social care providers can often struggle to have a unified voice with dozens of homes and domiciliary care organisations dealing with the same commissioners and facing the same challenges – but rarely speaking out in unison…