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SEND inspections find services in just one in four areas usually lead to ‘positive’ outcomes for disabled children

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Education

SEND inspections find services in just one in four areas usually lead to ‘positive’ outcomes for disabled children
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Only one in four inspections of local services for disabled children in England last year concluded that they usually lead to “positive experiences and outcomes” for those young people, the education regulator has announced. The findings from Ofsted showed that 28 […]

Covid inquiry ‘must examine’ pandemic’s steep rise in deaths of disabled people who receive care at home

By John Pring on 6th February 2025 Category: Independent Living

Covid inquiry ‘must examine’ pandemic’s steep rise in deaths of disabled people who receive care at home
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Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the Covid public inquiry to examine why there was a huge increase in deaths of disabled people receiving care in their own homes across the UK during the pandemic. By May 2021, […]

‘Jaw-dropping’ evidence from CQC bosses on safety and IT failures shocks MPs

By John Pring on 16th January 2025 Category: Independent Living

‘Jaw-dropping’ evidence from CQC bosses on safety and IT failures shocks MPs
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The care regulator has admitted to shocked MPs that many service-users, relatives and care staff who have reported safeguarding concerns about a care home or hospital may still be waiting for a response five months later. The Care Quality Commission’s outgoing […]

Regulator’s state of the nation report stays almost silent on safety and quality of adult social care

By John Pring on 31st October 2024 Category: Independent Living

Regulator’s state of the nation report stays almost silent on safety and quality of adult social care
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The care regulator’s annual assessment of “the state of health and care” in England includes almost no discussion of the quality and safety of adult social care services, analysis of the report has revealed. Large sections of the Care Quality Commission’s […]

‘Urgent need’ for rapid turnaround in how care regulator is run, after review finds significant failings

By John Pring on 17th October 2024 Category: Independent Living

‘Urgent need’ for rapid turnaround in how care regulator is run, after review finds significant failings
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A review ordered by the last government has found “significant failings” within England’s care and health regulator. The final report into the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was published this week, and it found an “urgent need” for a […]

The State of Care is ‘longer waits and reduced access’, says watchdog

By John Pring on 26th October 2023 Category: Independent Living

The State of Care is ‘longer waits and reduced access’, says watchdog
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The care watchdog has raised a series of concerns about access to care and support, the over-use of restraint and seclusion, and the failure to provide legal protection to disabled people in vulnerable situations, in an annual report. In its annual assessment […]

Watchdog holds back verdict on latest care sector concerns

By John Pring on 25th May 2023 Category: Independent Living

Watchdog holds back verdict on latest care sector concerns
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The care watchdog has declined to raise concerns about the state of adult social care services in England, despite releasing a new batch of inspection reports that show nearly half of them failed to meet acceptable standards. In just a week, […]

MPs fail to question minister on care charges ‘national scandal’

By John Pring on 4th May 2023 Category: Independent Living

MPs fail to question minister on care charges ‘national scandal’
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MPs have been criticised for failing to question the social care minister about the “national scandal” of tens of thousands of disabled people across England who have been left in debt because they cannot pay their care charges. Helen Whately was […]

Seven weeks without a care minister… as figures show worsening services

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Independent Living

Seven weeks without a care minister… as figures show worsening services
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New figures have revealed the steadily-worsening state of adult social care, and how disabled people are increasingly reporting concerns about the quality and safety of services, seven weeks after the government last had a minister for social care in post. As […]

Not one recommendation achieved, two years after CQC restraint and seclusion review

By John Pring on 31st March 2022 Category: Human Rights

Not one recommendation achieved, two years after CQC restraint and seclusion review
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Not a single one of the 17 recommendations made two years ago by a government-commissioned review into the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation of disabled people has been carried out, the care regulator has concluded. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said […]

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