National Minimum / Living Wage to Increase

Care providing businesses should prepare now for significant increases in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW), confirmed as part of the government’s Autumn Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves accepted the Low Pay Commission’s latest...

Scammers Pose as CQC Officials to Care Providers

Care Providers are being warned about a scam involving individuals impersonating inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These fraudsters are contacting care providers by phone, claiming to be from the CQC, and requesting sensitive information including CQC...

Manual handling at work: guidance on the law

As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace. Workers are vulnerable to the risk of MSD injuries from hazardous manual handling.   You can find help with preventing these sorts of risks in your workplace on...