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Newcastle Care Home Solicitors

Care Homes

Navigating care home laws and regulations in the UK can be complex. With so many aspects to consider, from finance and employment to property and HR, our solicitors are on hand to help your care home operate as efficiently as possible while abiding by the rules of care home law.

Our lawyers for nursing homes understand how important it is to ensure a safe and legally compliant care home setting. Whether you’re looking to buy or sell a care home, facing compliance challenges, or need employment law advice for care home employees, we can tailor our legal services to suit your facility's needs and pain points.

How we can help you

With our team of nursing home solicitors by your side, we can help you deliver high quality care to your residents by ensuring you’re ready for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections — avoiding legal action, lawsuits, fines, and closures.

With over 70 years of experience in legal services, we’re lucky to have incredible connections in finance, property, HR, and construction, allowing us to deliver an end-to-end legal service to get your care home where it needs to be — for residents and your business.

Our services: How we can help you abide by UK nursing home laws and regulations

Every care home is different, and our adaptable team of legal professionals will take a bespoke approach when handling your care home operations.

  • Acquisition and disposals

    If you have recently bought or sold a care home, you will likely need legal and financial advice to maximise your investment. We can provide legal advice on the following:

    • Asset and share-based transactions to protect your investment
    • Sale-and-leaseback agreements for financial security
    • Building a scalable care home group
  • Development and finance

    Whether you’ve acquired land to build a care home or need help managing funding, our team can provide legal advice throughout your care home development project by supporting you in:

    • Land purchases and site acquisitions, and contracts for new care homes and care villages
    • Loans, refinancing agreements, and investor negotiations
    • Guidance on business structuring for tax efficiency while ensuring legal compliance
  • Care home compliance support

    We can help you meet the high standards set by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) by:

    • Guiding you through inspections, challenges, and appeals
    • Protecting your care home’s interests in the case of a regulatory dispute
  • Employment and HR

    Our employment law services can ensure that your care home employees are managed fairly and legally, reducing the risk of unfair dismissal claims, employee tribunals, and grievances. Our team can help you with:

    • TUPE transfers when buying or selling a care home to ensure a smooth transition for employees
    • HR strategies and policies, including contracts and disciplinary procedures
    • Legal advice for handling employee disputes, redundancies, and restructures with mediation
  • Construction and property

    Our construction and property law services ensure that your care home developments and property transactions comply with all legal requirements, minimising risks related to contracts, property disputes, and construction issues. We can help you with:

    • Drafting and negotiating contracts for construction work
    • Assisting with property disputes, and lease negotiations
    • Dealing with non-contentious (planning, drafting, and negotiation) and contentious (disputes, breaches, and legal conflicts) construction issues

Trust in Hay & Kilner’s care home solicitors in Newcastle

If you are buying, selling, or operating a care home, our experienced team at our law firm in Newcastle will gladly assist you with legal advice, guidance, and support.

Contact us today for a no-obligation chat where you can discuss your needs with a legal care home specialist.

  • What legislation applies to care homes?

    In the UK, care homes must abide by:

    • Care Homes Regulations 2001
    • Care Act 2014
    • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
    • The Equality Act 2010
    • The Children and Families Act 2014
    • The Human Rights Act 1998
    • The Mental Health Act 1983
    • The Health and Social Care Act 2008
  • What are the 5 CQC standards to operate a care home by?

    To evaluate and investigate the operations of your care home, CQC will review your facility based on the following key lines of enquiry (KLOE):

    1. Safety (to prove that your services protect residents from abuse and harm)

    2. Effective (to prove that your services make a difference in a resident’s quality of life)

    3. Caring (to prove that your employees treat residents with dignity and respect)

    4. Responsive (to prove that your services are organised and directly meet the needs of residents)

    5. Well-led (to prove that your services are managed well and offer high-quality care based on individual resident needs)

  • What policies must a care home follow?

    In any health and social care setting, facilities must follow a set of rules and regulations related to the following:

    • Safeguarding and protection
    • Equal opportunities
    • Record keeping
    • Confidentiality
    • First aid
    • Dispute management
    • Administering medication
    • Health and safety

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‘Hay & Kilner’ and ‘Hay & Kilner Law Firm’ are both trading names of Hay & Kilner LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales with registered number OC418767. Our registered office is at The Lumen, St James' Boulevard, Newcastle Helix, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5BZ and we are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (Authorisation number 643191). We use the word ‘partner’ to refer to a member of Hay & Kilner LLP. A list of the members is available at our registered office.