Care Homes

Specialist legal and commercial advice for care homes and domiciliary care providers—helping you navigate regulation, manage risk, and grow with confidence

Specialist advice to help your business thrive in a complex regulatory landscape

Trusted legal guidance for the social care sector

At Tees, our specialist lawyers are dedicated to serving the unique needs of care homes and domiciliary care providers.

With a deep understanding of the complex regulatory landscape and the practical and commercial pressures within the adult social care sector, we offer pragmatic, tailored legal advice that enables providers to operate confidently and compliantly.

Why choose Tees?

Sector-specific knowledge: Our lawyers have over 20 years’ experience advising care providers. We speak your language and understand your risks, pressures, and opportunities.

Responsive and practical : We pride ourselves on delivering prompt, commercially-minded advice that cuts through complexity.

Trusted by providers nationwide: We advise independent operators and national care groups across England, supporting them through every stage of their journey.

Combined legal and financial services

Our team brings together expertise across commercial transactions, employment law, and regulatory compliance, offering a one-stop legal solution for your business.

In addition to legal advice, Tees’ independent financial advisers can also assist with pensions and financial planning for care home owners—providing a truly holistic approach to the challenges facing care providers.

We can help with:

Acquisitions and sales

Buying and selling care homes and domiciliary care businesses or property

- Funding arrangements: secured bank lending, personal guarantees, loan agreements.
- OpCo/PropCo transactions
- Insolvent acquisitions

Corporate and business advice

- Business structure advice: Company, Partnership, LLP, or Sole Trader
- Incorporation of LLPs or companies
- Exit and succession planning: shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, LLP agreements
- Debt recovery

Regulatory compliance and CQC

- CQC registration advice (including new registrations, manager changes, and service variations)
- Support with inspections, enforcement action, improvement notices, and ratings challenges
- Appeals against cancellation or suspension of registration

Safeguarding and governance

- Guidance on safeguarding responsibilities and regulatory obligations
- Advice on whistleblowing concerns and internal investigations
- Governance best practice

Employment law and workforce management

- Staff contracts, recruitment processes, DBS checks, right-to-work checks
- Performance management, disciplinary procedures, grievance handling
- Defending claims in the Employment Tribunal and higher courts
- Outsourcing and TUPE advice
- Workforce restructuring and redundancy planning
- Drafting staff handbooks, policies, and procedures
- Dispute resolution, exit negotiations, and settlement agreements

Property transactions

- Buying, selling, or leasing care home properties
- Property due diligence
- Landlord and tenant issues

Contracts and service agreements

Drafting and reviewing:

- Client care agreements
- Local authority and commissioner contracts
- Subcontractor agreements
- Terms of business

Data protection and GDPR

- Ensuring compliance with data protection law and safeguarding client information
- Drafting privacy policies, procedures, and privacy notices
- Staff training for GDPR awareness and compliance

Tees as a multi disciplinary firm provides real in depth expertise with an ability to identify and deal with the exceptional alongside the everyday commercial issues that arise. It merits its reputation for its responsive and often innovative approach to problem solving
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Our key services

The areas our care home and domiciliary specialists solicitors can help you with include:

Key people

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Ruth Barber

Senior Associate

Dispute Resolution

Claire Powell

Partner

Corporate Law

Robert Whitaker

Executive Partner

Employment Law

Tracey Dickens

Partner

Corporate Law

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Contact us today

If you’d like to meet one of our experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch.

Telephone

0800 013 1165

Office locations
Bishop’s Stortford
Brentwood
Cambridge
Chelmsford
North Herts
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All legal services provided by Tees are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Tees is a trading name of Stanley Tee LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA Number 464615) and is registered in England and Wales number OC327874.

All financial services provided by Tees are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Tees and Tees Wealth are trading names of Tees Financial Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered in England and Wales number 4342506. Registered office address Tees House, 95 London Road, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3GW.

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