Care watchdog criticised over abandoned bid to replace service-user contracts
The care watchdog is facing heavy criticism after being forced to abandon a year-long attempt…
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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…
Remploy refuses to carry out basic background checks for care inspection roles
The company employed by the care watchdog to find service-users to help inspect residential homes…
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…
Maximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts
A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised…
Concerns over watchdog’s ‘alarming’ inspection cancellation figures
Disabled campaigners and politicians have raised serious concerns about the social care inspection regime, after…
Cancelled inspections by care watchdog rise 360 per cent in one year
The number of inspections by the social care regulator that are cancelled or rescheduled every…
Life under Maximus for CQC’s service-user experts: Chaos, cuts and ‘playschool ID cards’
The care watchdog’s decision to ask a discredited US outsourcing giant to manage its disabled…
Care watchdog to subsidise Maximus plans to halve pay of disabled experts
The care watchdog wants to use government funds to subsidise a discredited US outsourcing giant’s…
Maximus-owned Remploy slashes pay of disabled experts by half
The care watchdog has allowed a US outsourcing giant to slash the pay of disabled…