Our expertise
The sector is facing increased scrutiny in terms of regulated and unregulated aspects. Having the in depth legal advice from those active in the sector is crucial, to ensuring your business can grow by being able to access opportunities for development whilst simultaneously ensuring that you do not face prosecution or fines that can constrict your business.
We are widely acknowledged as experts in this sector having dealt with multimillion pound developments for developers, registered providers and care operators. We are able to assist with a full spectrum of legal services including:
- Singular and portfolio acquisitions and disposals
- Financing
- Development agreements, planning and works conditionality
- Construction
- Leases
- Investment structuring and restructuring
- Forward funding agreement
- Maintenances agreements
- Nomination agreements
- Service level agreements
- Trading business/asset acquisitions and disposals
- Employment advice
Public law
Our public law team has over 15 years’ experience of advising on mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards(DoLS). We act across a full range of adult social services and community care law issues including but not limited to: Court of Protection proceedings involving complex welfare considerations and medical treatment issues, deprivation of liberty and Article 5 compliance issues, access to care services and assessment for the same, mental health and capacity law, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Care Act 2014 and judicial review actions arising from these practice areas. The deprivation of liberty safeguards only apply to hospitals and care homes at present. They do not apply to housing with care services, we can advise you regarding any safeguard that you should have in place as best practice.
Regulation
Our regulatory team can advise you on the areas of specific regulation for supported living providers. Supported living providers that are not engaged in delivering the regulated activity ‘personal care’ are not now required by law to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The personal care is provided under separate contractual arrangements to those for the person’s housing. In some cases supported living providers may need to be registered for the regulated activity ‘accommodation for persons requiring nursing or personal care’. The difference will depend upon the contractual arrangements in place for the delivery of the care and of the housing. We are able to advise supported living providers of their obligations in relation to this and assist providers where they are regulated if they are facing investigation or enforcement action prosecution.
Our regulatory team can also provide health & safety and regulatory advice.
Inquests
Have a dedicated inquests team experts in representation at Inquests involving multi authority representation.
