Restyle the site onto the RDA "Connected Advice" design system
Brings supportedlivingfinancials.co.uk in line with rdaaccountants.co.uk (direction 1 from the design review: full re-skin). - tokens.css copied from the RDA repo; global.css rebuilt on it (Montserrat, navy/amber/cream, pill buttons, RDA service cards) - Header and footer mirror RDA's SiteHeader / SiteFooter - Hero is now RDA's photo-cover hero; the three framing statements move to a card band beneath it - Sections alternate white / cream / navy bands; Connected Advice band becomes an amber strip - Contact form sits on a white card; HubSpot --hsf-* vars updated - Insights index, articles and 404 restyled to match - Copy, IDs, data-cta attributes, analytics gating and the HubSpot developer embed are unchanged Accessibility: eyebrows and emphasised heading text stay navy (with an amber rule/underline) on light bands, because amber-on-white is ~2:1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lc7sFUEcDe36Ve4cYC7Nyx
Practical, sector-specific analysis for supported living operators — written by the team that builds the numbers behind these decisions every day.
How to Build a Supported Living Business That Is Worth What You Think It Is
A business grows over ten or fifteen years, creates something genuinely valuable, and then the owners want to change direction — only to find it is worth far less than they expected. Exit planning is the work that closes that gap.
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Most providers accept the fee their local authority offers — not because they're satisfied, but because they don't know how to challenge it effectively. A fee review is not a confrontation. It is an exchange of evidence.
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Agency costs are the leak that sinks supported living businesses. Not the dramatic collapse — the slow, steady drain that starts as a short-term fix and becomes a permanent feature of the cost base.
Read article→Financial Sustainability and What It Means for Your Inspection
CQC inspections have always focused on the quality and safety of care. Since 2023 they have also focused on something many providers are less prepared for: your financial sustainability.
Read article→The Three Pressures Every Supported Living Operator Needs to Understand
The business is busy, occupancy is solid, the team works hard — and yet the money never adds up. There's a reason for that, and it rarely comes from one place. It comes from three.
Read article→Why Supported Living Providers Are Losing Ground Without Knowing It
There is a number most supported living providers have never calculated. Once you know it, it changes how you think about every contract you hold.
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