Care home solicitors

With our experienced solicitors across a range of practice areas, Tees are the ideal firm to guide and assist your organisation through the legal challenges of the care sector.

Our various teams can provide expert advice on care home operations whether you are: acquiring, or disposing of, a care home; facing a legal issue or dispute; or seeking legal support for its day-to-day running.

We also work with individuals who have interests in the care home sector – including care home owners, majority shareholders, and people looking to acquire a new care home operation.

Call our specialist solicitors on 0808 231 1320

 Solicitors for care services

Any organisation offering care to vulnerable people faces strict standards of regulation. Tees can help you to shoulder this burden. But we also go beyond this, offering cost-effective services which cover many of the daily legalities of operating as a care provider. These include:

Employment matters

• Staff contracts
• Redundancies, long-term sickness absence, disciplinary proceedings
• Employment rights, workplace policies, and ACAS codes of practice
• Tribunal matters and proceedings – such as defending claims of unfair dismissal, discrimination, or whistleblowing
• Settlement agreements

Structuring your care organisation

• Corporate structure
• Shareholder and partnership agreements

Contractual and commercial matters

• Contracts with suppliers, third parties, service users, local authority
• Buying or selling a care home business
• Mergers
• Management buyouts

Care home, land and property services

• Construction of care home premises
• Sale and purchase
• Leases and sub-leases

Regulatory matters

• Responding to Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Handling and challenging CQC enforcement decisions
• Responding and dealing with concerns raised by a regulator
• Dealing with investigations and any enforcement action brought by a regulator

Legal matters relating to your service-users

• Safeguarding
• Advice on mental capacity/deputyship/LPAs/court of protection
• Wills and probate for service-users

If you would like to engage our services or to discuss how Tees could help you, contact us today.