Care Home Management magazine

06/10/2025

NEW PODCAST

How using AI in workforce management saves time and money – special podcast with Planday

In our special podcast with workforce management systems specialists Planday we look at AI’s role in balancing staffing needs, predicting revenue and improving scheduling efficiency.

Tune in here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/233693/episodes/17963047-future-ready-care-how-ai-and-workforce-management-systems-are-changing-the-game.mp3?download=true

Planday’s principal AI engineer Tom Gadsby discusses:

* The importance of starting small with AI pilots to assess its impact on staff retention and well-being
* Why care homes must gradually scale up, while maintaining human oversight and control
* The need to speak to other care homes to understand their experiences and challenges
* * How to define the key problems and objectives for your care home before exploring AI solutions

* Why care homes should reach out to providers such as Planday to understand how their AI-powered workforce management tools could address your specific needs.

This special Care Home Management magazine podcast is hosted by publishing editor Steve Hemsley and kindly sponsored by Hendrix. Hendrix supplies care homes with professional actors for in-house training roleplays.

01/10/2025

Care workers can expect to see improved pay and terms and conditions by 2028, as the Government takes its first steps to backing workers with collective bargaining.

The step takes the form of a £500 million cash boost to set up a negotiating body charged with improving recruitment and retention in the sector as part of the Government’s Fair Pay Agreement pledges.

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The Government has invested £500m in a new body to progress towards Fair Pay in the care sector. Residential care home management

11/09/2025

Collect your Care Home Management Year Planner 2026 for your office at this October's Care Show.

08/09/2025

NEW PODCAST:

Care Home Marketing - How to tell your positive care home story

Top Tips from communications specialists Conteur.

Tune in: https://www.buzzsprout.com/233693/episodes/17806943-how-to-tell-your-care-home-s-story-top-tips.mp3?download=true

On the podcast we discuss how care homes can and should be promoting their positive story to boost their reputation and occupancy.

Join Conteur’s managing director David Huckerby and account director Natasha Jones as they provide top tips on how to create a positive narrative.

These include:

* How to become a community hub
* Why you need to be authentic and consistent in your marketing
* How to leverage different social media platforms
* Why you should use video content
* How to encourage staff to be care home brand ambassadors
* How to help change negative perceptions of social care.

Hear about one case study where Conteur helped a care home increase enquiries by 90% and boosted occupancy by 32% in three months.

Tune in: https://www.buzzsprout.com/233693/episodes/17806943-how-to-tell-your-care-home-s-story-top-tips.mp3?download=true

Find out more about Conteur’s care home marketing packages here: https://conteur.co.uk/care-home-marketing-packages/

Podcast hosted by Steve Hemsley and kindly sponsored by Hendrix Training who provide professional actors for care home training role plays.

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04/09/2025

Skills for Care is the membership organisation for registered managers in England

Are you a registered manager of an adult social care service?

Why not come and join the growing community of registered managers and be part of a membership community that helps increase the professional recognition of registered managers, and champions the values for delivering compassionate, person-centred care.

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Why not come and join the growing community of registered managers and be part of a membership community via Skills for Care?

04/09/2025

Our latest issue is out in plenty of time for this year's Care Show.

Read now: https://library.myebook.com/CareHomeManagement/care-home-management-sept-oct-2025/6198/

In this issue:

- Facilities (vehicles and pest control)
- How to avoid energy scams
- cyber security
- Care Show preview
- HR update
- Legal update
- AI in care (special podcast)
- And much, much more...

Read now: https://library.myebook.com/CareHomeManagement/care-home-management-sept-oct-2025/6198/

02/08/2025

Care homes urged to exercise caution over imported eggs

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31/07/2025

Dementia leaders call for mandatory care standards across England.

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29/07/2025

Adult care home sector warned of impending domestic workforce crisis
Adult social care needs to stay focused on attracting the domestic workforce, Skills for Care has warned despite latest figures showing falling vacancy rates.

A new report into the size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England shows that the vacancy rate in adult social care in 2024/25 was 7 per cent, equating to 111,000 posts. .

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Skills for Care warns of an impending crisis in the domestic care home workforce. Care home professional news. Care home providers guidance

28/07/2025

NEW PODCAST:

In the second of our special podcasts on Artificial Intelligence we explore how AI is improving care today.

Tune in: https://chmonline.co.uk/podcast/91-how-ai-is-improving-care/

We look at:

How AI is improving care outcomes
The use of AI to solve problems
How AI is saving time and money by improving manual tasks
The importance of Human Intelligence in this new world
How AI supports residents and staff
How AI improves data quality

Join guest host York Woodford-Smith from Five On A Bike as he discusses all things AI and care with Ally Cares CEO Thomas Tredinnick and PainChek's senior business development manager Tandeep GIll.

Tune in: https://chmonline.co.uk/podcast/91-how-ai-is-improving-care/

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Podcast kindly sponsored by HeHendrix Trainingsupplying role play actors to support care home training.

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25/07/2025

Skills for Care has launched the first placement strategy for social care nursing.

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Skills for Care has launched a first strategy for student nurse social care placements. Care home business advice. Care business information

19/07/2025

Blood Me Up Marjorie! Is coming to Friday Oct 3 .

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An hilarious comedy looking behind the scenes of a murder mystery.

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