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Care Quality Commission

Leonard Cheshire facing care regulator questions after third Greathouse death

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Human Rights

Leonard Cheshire facing care regulator questions after third Greathouse death
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A disability charity is facing questions from the care regulator after a third former resident of a care home died within a month of its sudden closure. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported concerns from disabled campaigners, relatives and former […]

Watchdog’s use of service-user inspection scheme has fallen sharply since 2015

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Independent Living

Watchdog’s use of service-user inspection scheme has fallen sharply since 2015
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The care watchdog is only managing to send service-users to assist on just over half of its inspections of residential homes, care agencies and day centres in England, new figures have revealed. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has repeatedly insisted that […]

Number of social care inspectors falls sharply, new figures show

By John Pring on 2nd November 2017 Category: Independent Living

Number of social care inspectors falls sharply, new figures show
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The number of inspectors working for the care watchdog has fallen sharply over the last year, according to new figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS). From October 2016 to October 2017, the number of inspectors employed by the Care Quality […]

CQC figures reveal hundreds of care homes have gone two years since last inspection

By John Pring on 27th July 2017 Category: Independent Living

CQC figures reveal hundreds of care homes have gone two years since last inspection
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More than 300 residential care homes for younger disabled adults have not been inspected by the care watchdog for more than two years, according to official figures obtained by Disability News Service (DNS). The figures, released by the Care Quality Commission […]

Mencap care staff ‘called resident “poison dwarf” and reused feeding syringes’

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Mencap care staff ‘called resident “poison dwarf” and reused feeding syringes’
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The disability charity Mencap is facing allegations that staff at one of its care homes used an offensive nickname for a disabled resident, and repeatedly reused feeding syringes that should have been thrown away after just one day. A whistleblower, A*, […]

Care regulator faces questions over inspection failings at abuse homes

By John Pring on 15th June 2017 Category: Crime

Care regulator faces questions over inspection failings at abuse homes
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The care regulator is facing fresh questions over its inspection failings after it emerged that it delivered glowing reports on standards at a dozen care homes, less than two years before abusive regimes were exposed at all 12 institutions. The Devon […]

Shock and anger of abuse survivor, 20 years on from scandal

By John Pring on 15th June 2017 Category: Crime

Shock and anger of abuse survivor, 20 years on from scandal
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A disabled woman who survived an appalling regime of abuse at a notorious residential home has spoken of her shock and anger at seeing television reports of similar crimes at care homes in Devon two decades later. Last week, reporting restrictions […]

Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

By John Pring on 4th May 2017 Category: Employment

Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections
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Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the care watchdog’s inspection programme were refused support workers, while one was bullied into resigning, documents obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The internal reports – finally released following a […]

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Independent Living

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’
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The care watchdog is failing to order urgent inspections of care homes, despite coroners warning that urgent action must be taken to prevent further deaths of the disabled and older people who live there, an NHS whistleblower has found. Coroners publish […]

Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat

By John Pring on 13th October 2016 Category: Housing

Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat
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A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs to his second-floor flat by his personal assistant because of his local council’s failure to rehouse him in safe, accessible accommodation. Robert Carver – who is paraplegic – has also been […]

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