Aged & community care
Overview
Our Aged & Community Care team knows how challenging it is for providers to deal with changing regulatory requirements, intense community and media scrutiny, workforce pressures and financial viability, while striving to deliver the quality of care that residents and families seek and regulators require.
We work with some of the largest aged care providers in Australia, including for-profit, not-for-profit, religious institutions, community-based organisations and in-home care providers.
Our team provides the full range of legal services to the sector. We have deep contextual knowledge of the economic, ethical and commercial drivers for success and drill down to the specific pressure points our clients face to ensure our advice has the clarity and precision needed for them to make informed decisions.
Our team’s expertise enables us to advise on:
- acquisitions and mergers
- corporate governance, operational compliance, risk management and regulation
- commercial contracting and commercial arrangements, such as service agreements, building improvements, funding agreements and grants
- dispute resolution including medical and professional indemnity, liaison with statutory authorities, litigated and non-litigated claims alleging negligent care
- employment and industrial relations, including workplace health and safety, employment contracts and policies, enterprise bargaining, claims relating to unfair dismissals, discrimination, bullying, harassment, wages and workers’ compensation
- investigations into care failings in aged and in-home care situations
- protecting personal data and privacy, and dealing with data breaches
- property development and redevelopment, ranging from finance, site acquisition and planning, to pre-sales, construction, construction disputes and conveyancing
- responses to emergency incidents
- restructuring, insolvency and debt recovery, and
- tax offsets and tax exemptions.
Our team also offers a range of training designed to meet specific learning and risk management needs.
Our Aged & Community Care professionals are consistently ranked among the best in respected legal guides, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and Best Lawyers in Australia.
