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Earlier this week I wrote about a care home campaigner who is facing a conduct hearing , where it has been alleged that she breached client confidentiality. Read More...
There is an interesting conduct tribunal under way involving
a solicitor who campaigns against the closure of residential care homes. Read More...
It would have made a formidable double act: Dame Joan
Bakewell and Sir Michael Parkinson marching on Downing Street to protest about cuts in the number of sheltered housing wardens . Read More...
There has long been a feeling that care homes - a view not necessarily shared by the providers themselves - should welcome
pets owned by residents. Read More...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published its submission
to MPs now looking into the skills needs of social care staff who support people
with dementia . Read More...
Care workers on the minimum wage who are toasting their not
overly generous 7p an hour pay rise should put down their glasses now. Read More...
It has all the hallmarks of the Thalidomide scandal of the
1960s and 1970s. The morning sickness drug given to pregnant women caused them
to give birth to babies without arms and legs. Read More...
The Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign was
delivered a jolt this week as pensioners joined Age Concern, MP Paul
Burstow and actress Sylvia Sims in a protest about the paltry sums on which
care home residents survive. Read More...
Care home residents have been celebrating the new year with
the prospect of a full 75p rise in their personal allowance. Read More...
Care home provider Southern Cross Healthcare is making
negative headlines again. Read More...
The dangers of exposing social care to the whim of market forces were underlined when the High Court ordered a Southern Cross Healthcare subsidiary to relinquish control of a care home in Northamptonshire. Read More...
The three-year gap allowed between inspections of care homes
rated as "good" by the Commission for Social Care Inspection is generous
indeed. It is also risky. Read More...