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A local authority appears to have ignored three warnings that a former Mencap advisor – who has previously been arrested over two unconnected rape allegations – is being allowed to spend time with disabled service-users with high support needs. Brian McGinnis […]
The police watchdog has refused to say whether it is concerned about a force which has been criticised four times in just three years over its policies and procedures on disability. Last week, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) detailed how […]
The care watchdog is facing allegations of a cover-up, after refusing to answer key questions about how it dealt with the fall-out from a day centre abuse scandal. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was told last year that nursing assistant Susan […]
A police force has been criticised by a watchdog for the fourth time in three years over its policies and procedures on disability. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found poor performance by staff of Greater Manchester police (GMP), following an […]
A local authority has refused to comment on why an independent review it helped to commission into a day centre abuse scandal ignored a series of key issues. The serious case review (SCR) was only commissioned by Doncaster Safeguarding Adults Partnership […]
The NHS trust at the centre of a day centre abuse scandal has denied ignoring whistleblowers who tried to raise concerns about poor standards – months before the regime was finally exposed. The abuse was eventually halted in March 2007 after […]
The NHS trust at the centre of a day centre scandal is guilty of “morally unjustifiable acts that verge on criminality”, according to the step-father of one of the survivors of the abuse. Adrian Milnes’ step-son Richie was one of the […]
The public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into claims of fraud by a company paid to find jobs for disabled people. Only last week, MPs on the Commons public accounts committee quizzed Robert Devereux, permanent secretary in the Department for […]
The consultant responsible for an independent review of how public bodies dealt with an abuse scandal at a day centre has defended her decision to ignore a string of key issues in her report. Gill Poole’s serious case review for Doncaster […]
The Department of Health (DH) has been asked whether a senior civil servant – later arrested over two separate rape allegations – helped block tougher laws on the sexual abuse of people with learning difficulties in the 1980s. Disability News Service […]