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  • On Inspection

    The Commission for Social Care Inspection have a system of rating residential and nursing homes. I have written about it before. I possibly didn’t state obliquely how cynical I have become of this system even though the cynicism was always there implicitly. Last week, however, I had a more personal...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2008

  • Men Needed

    Perhaps it is unsurprising to learn that the majority of people who work in ’social care’ are women. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report last week explaining why it was necessary for the sector to reach out and attract more men to the workforce. Stepheye at Flickr Some of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008

  • Alton Centre - a further update

    I do feel obliged to update on the Alton Centre run by Active Care - a subsidiary of Southern Cross - just as I have been following the story. Active Care won their appeal against closure yesterday and it is reported in the local Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. It reports On Friday the Care Standards...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-07-2008

  • Alton Centre, Active Care and Southern Cross - an update

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Alton Centre, a home in Northamptonshire run by Active Care - a subsidiary of Southern Cross Healthcare who were reported to be suffering from financial difficulties earlier in the year. Today the appeal against the loss of the registration is being appealed and Community...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2008

  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008
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