Half of learning disability services not meeting core standards
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
18 May 2012

How service users are leading response to Winterbourne View
In the wake of Winterbourne View, the Care Quality Commission employed 27 adults with learning disabilities to act as ‘experts by experience’ in the teams inspecting 150 learning disability services. Two of them discuss their experiences.
20 March 2012

UKHCA outlines the rules on rest periods for homecare workers
Colin Angel, policy and campaigns director of the United Kingdom Homecare Association, outlines the association's position regarding the rest periods domiciliary care staff should take while working
02 November 2011

Your guide to: meeting minimum standards set by the CQC
Experts decode what the Care Quality Commission's 275-page document on meeting new standards means for residential and domiciliary care providers and adult placements
21 January 2011