Social Care
We understand the complexities of the fast-moving, heavily-regulated social care sector and the challenges this presents to providers in balancing opportunity and risk.
Our highly experienced lawyers offer tailored legal advice to help clients maximise the positive impact on the people they support whilst protecting operational, commercial and reputational success.
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As trusted advisors to many of the UK’s largest social care entities, our expertise extends to a range of public and independent sector clients. These include private providers, charities, housing associations, supported living providers, developers and investors. We work collaboratively with them to support sustainable, long-term growth of their services.
From creation and registration of new services and models of care delivery to regulatory enforcement, we offer comprehensive legal support that includes guidance on acquisition or development, recruitment and appointment to statutory positions, CQC registration and inspection, regulatory compliance (including factual accuracy and rating review processes), enforcement and formal legal proceedings.
We’re also adept at supporting providers and investors undertaking organisational change and transactional projects, leveraging our extensive commercial, corporate and real estate capability to develop (or dispose of) your operations.
Featured experience
- Supporting through the full life cycle of regulatory registration, compliance, and enforcement. This includes advising on CQC registration, inspection and rating and all aspects of civil and criminal enforcement, including appeals to the First Tier Tribunal and criminal prosecution in respect of safe care, ill-treatment and wilful neglect and manslaughter offences.
- Advising on all aspects of mental health and capacity law, including issues such best interests decision making, managing the role of the Court of Protection and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in residential social care and the community. We also assist in navigating the interface with health services and commissioners, and broader interagency working, including safeguarding bodies and the police.
- Acting for a developer on the acquisition and planning for a care home and retirement village, including preparation of the section 106 agreement. We work with real estate developers on specialist accommodation stretching across the development cycle, including planning, construction, financing, asset management and litigation issues around social care and supported living services.
- Providing comprehensive employment law advice to clients across the sector, including advising on disciplinaries and grievances, performance management, discrimination, whistleblowing, employment regulatory issues and senior executive disputes, and representing our clients at all stages of litigation
- Advising on share and asset sale transactions, including due diligence on current levels of regulatory compliance and quality standards, drafting of necessary contractual wording, transaction documentation and support through the CQC registration and de-registration processes
Health and Social Care Regulatory
Our health and social care regulatory specialists will provide you with practical, strategic advice designed to help you resolve complex issues in this highly regulated sector.
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Health and Social Care Real Estate
We provide a complete real estate service across the health and social care sector, for both public health bodies, NHS Foundation Trusts and private providers as well as to developers, investors and funders – both national and international.
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Inquests
Our experienced healthcare regulatory lawyers represent NHS and independent providers in inquest proceedings.
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Governance and Compliance in Healthcare
Working within our leading health and social care team, our governance experts specialise in helping health and social care organisations implement effective governance practices.
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Corporate Health
We work with a wide range of businesses, nationally and internationally, across the health and social care sector, providing a comprehensive service across the whole spectrum of corporate transactions and advice.
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Commercial Health
The health and social care sector remains under great pressure to both generate efficiencies as well as adopt innovation, all while continuing to provide safe and high quality care. This means that informed, commercial decisions need to be made, often at pace, against a backdrop of complex frameworks, and within a highly regulated environment.
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Data, Privacy and Cyber in Health
Our specialist lawyers understand, and advise based on the sensitivity and huge value of data in health and social care.
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Health Procurement
With private and public sector budgets under increased scrutiny, value for money (VFM) has become the watchword for procurement.
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Health Employment
Our market-leading employment team provides tailored solutions to difficult problems across the health and social care sector.
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Clinical Risk and Medical Malpractice
We understand the challenges that arise in the healthcare sector when patient expectations are not met, and we also recognise that cost pressures in the sector and on medical malpractice indemnifiers have never been so acute. As the provision of healthcare fragments away from its traditional delivery models, more and more claims activity will affect commercial entities, private clinics, hospitals, general healthcare providers – and their insurers.
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Healthcare Litigation
We’re experts in resolving commercial disputes for a wide range of organisations in the health and social care sector.
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Public Law and Judicial Review
Our public law team is uniquely experienced in acting for public bodies on high-profile judicial reviews, and advisory work across the health and social care sector.
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Qui sommes-nous ?
Pourquoi choisir DAC Beachcroft ?
Nous sommes un cabinet commercial à large assise, au service d'un grand nombre de secteurs, avec un solide héritage dans les domaines de l'assurance, de la santé (
) et de l'immobilier. Nous combinons d'excellentes compétences juridiques et une expertise de pointe en matière d'exécution pour concevoir des solutions
qui répondent aux besoins de nos clients - souvent en utilisant intelligemment la technologie.
NHS
We offer market-leading, innovative, legal advice to enable the NHS to focus on delivering high-quality, safe patient care.
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Independent Health
Our award winning team is the leading provider of legal advice to the UK independent health and social care sector. We offer tailored solutions to help our clients deliver high-quality care.
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MedTech and Digital Health
Our market-leading team supports MedTech and digital health organisations, from ambitious innovators to established global listed companies, at various stages of their life cycle.
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Social Care
Our experts provide trusted legal advice to a wide range of organisations operating within the social care sector, supporting them to deliver safe care that will withstand legal, regulatory and public scrutiny, whilst also growing and developing their own organisation.
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Health Infrastructure
Our infrastructure and projects team is at the forefront of advising clients on strategic healthcare infrastructure projects.
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Mental Health
We provide specialist, practical and tailored legal advice for mental health service providers and commissioners, with a 24-hour accessible service.
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Health Charities and Not for Profit Providers
We’re passionate about the charity sector and have a deep understanding of the charity and not for profit regulatory environment as well as the wider health and social care sector.
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