Leonard Cheshire facing care regulator questions after third Greathouse death
A disability charity is facing questions from the care regulator after a third former resident…
Browsing: Care Quality Commission
Watchdog’s use of service-user inspection scheme has fallen sharply since 2015
The care watchdog is only managing to send service-users to assist on just over half…
Number of social care inspectors falls sharply, new figures show
The number of inspectors working for the care watchdog has fallen sharply over the last…
CQC figures reveal hundreds of care homes have gone two years since last inspection
More than 300 residential care homes for younger disabled adults have not been inspected by…
Mencap care staff ‘called resident “poison dwarf” and reused feeding syringes’
The disability charity Mencap is facing allegations that staff at one of its care homes…
Care regulator faces questions over inspection failings at abuse homes
The care regulator is facing fresh questions over its inspection failings after it emerged that…
Shock and anger of abuse survivor, 20 years on from scandal
A disabled woman who survived an appalling regime of abuse at a notorious residential home…
Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections
Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme were…
Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’
The care watchdog is failing to order urgent inspections of care homes, despite coroners warning…
Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat
A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs to his second-floor flat by…