Social care leaders have written to the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asking them to ‘act now’ to reform the social care system and to publish its proposals before the Summer Recess. Source: Care Feeds

Springfield Healthcare has secured a £7.5m loan for the development of a new luxury care home in Beverley, East Yorkshire. Source: Care Feeds

Football legend Harry Redknapp has paid a surprise visit to a care home resident with terminal cancer after a chance meeting in a car park with a Bournemouth care home manager. Source: Care Feeds

A Surrey care home has invested in stereotype-busting new traffic signs along its driveway, depicting dancing couples full of energy and vigour, in a bid to change perceptions of older people as being “frail, slow-moving and often simply weary of life.” Source: Care Feeds