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Social Care
We advise organisations across the social care sector and help you navigate a fast moving, highly regulated environment, providing tailored guidance that enables you to maximise the positive impact you have while protecting your operational, commercial, and reputational success.
Overview
Our team works across the full breadth of social care provision. This includes advising providers of services for children, working‑age adults, and the elderly, specialist complex care, supported housing and retirement living. We also act for investors, developers, charities, housing associations, and suppliers operating within the sector.
Our social care lawyers advise on the regulatory, commercial, and operational issues that matter most to you. This includes registration, inspection, assessment, and enforcement by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), as well as wider regulatory compliance, governance, charities law, and mental capacity law. We also provide regular training to providers and their senior leaders in relation to regulatory risk and updates on new and developing regulation.
We also specialises in advising on social care transactions, advising funders and operators on the regulatory, governance and compliance issues that arise throughout the investment lifecycle, including transactional due diligence, acquisition and disposal, portfolio management ,and structuring. Where needed, we draw on our other areas of practice across corporate, commercial, real estate, and employment law to provide tailored advice through the lens of social care.
We understand the pressures facing the sector - workforce, funding, regulatory scrutiny, and increasing complexity of care needs. Our lawyers help you anticipate risks, adapt to change, and respond confidently to regulatory intervention and legal change. We focus on solutions that protect your organisation’s reputation, commercial position, and ability to deliver safe and effective care.
We advise a broad range of organisations, including:
- Charities
- Childrens' services providers
- Commissioners
- Developers
- Domiciliary care organisations
- Elderly care and retirement living providers
- Housing associations
- Investors and funders
- Specialist complex care providers
- Supported living providers
Featured experience
CQC prosecutions
Representing care providers subject to CQC prosecution in relation to alleged failure to provide safe care and treatment
Inquests
Representing a care provider at an inquest involving complex issues around neglect and mitigation of future risk
Court of Protection proceedings
Supporting a provider through contentious Court of Protection proceedings relating to family contact arrangements for an individual in receipt of ongoing care.
Acquisitions
Advising PE investors on the acquisition of a large portfolio of childrens' residential services and schools, across a national footprint
Portfolio sale
Advising on the sale of a portfolio of residential care services across England and Scotland to a REIT investor
Portfolio re-organisation
Supporting with portfolio re-organisation for a national residential care service in anticipation of a series of transactions to dispose of all residential care services to a number of different purchasers and investors
Immigration sponsor license
Obtaining a new immigration sponsor licence for a major care business as part of a corporate transaction
Collaboration schemes
Advising on collaborations between housing associations and care providers for supported living schemes
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Charities
Our specialist charities team provide full-service advice and guidance on all legal, regulatory, and governance matters impacting on charities. Acting for not-for profit organisations across a range of sectors, our clients range from large, established household names to smaller, locally based organisations.
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Mental Health
Our mental health lawyers advise clients across the health and social care sector on the complex and continually evolving legal frameworks governing mental health services. We understand the operational and regulatory pressures facing mental health providers and help you navigate regulation, manage risk, and deliver safe, high quality services.
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Healthcare 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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Court of Protection
Specialist legal advice on Court of Protection matters for healthcare organisations, ensuring lawful decisions on capacity, best interests, and deprivation of liberty.
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Healthcare 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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Coroners' Inquests
Our experienced healthcare regulatory lawyers represent NHS and independent providers in inquest proceedings.
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Mergers and Acquisitions
Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers help clients confidently navigate transactions across domestic and international markets. We advise on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and complex group reorganisations, offering commercially focused guidance that supports your strategic objectives while managing risk and ensuring deals progress efficiently from initial discussions through to completion.
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Employment
Our Employment and Pensions group is one of the largest specialist employment teams in the country, with over 60 specialist employment and pensions lawyers nationally. Tax is an integrated part of the advice we provide.
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Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
NHS
As leading NHS lawyers, we support commissioners and providers operating in an increasingly complex and financially constrained environment. With over 75 years' experience in the sector, we provide clear, practical legal advice that strengthens patient safety, supports operational delivery, and helps you navigate strategic challenges.
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Independent Health
Independent healthcare providers operate in a complex and evolving environment. Drawing on our deep sector knowledge, we help clients navigate complex legal challenges, grow their businesses, and deliver high-quality patient care.
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MedTech, Digital Health and Life Sciences
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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Our mental health lawyers advise clients across the health and social care sector on the complex and continually evolving legal frameworks governing mental health services. We understand the operational and regulatory pressures facing mental health providers and help you navigate regulation, manage risk, and deliver safe, high quality services.
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