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  • Rated Good

    The Commission for Social Care Inspection inspect and rate every registered care home in England - as well as every agency that provides care for others.  The website provides access to inspection reports on every facility in England - both announced inspections and unannounced inspections. It is our...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Safeguarding Adults?

    One of the key policies that I’ve worked a lot with over the past few years, has been the introduction of the ‘new’ Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) scheme and the Safeguarding Adults procedure - when there is a suspicion of abuse of a vulnerable adult. And it’s usually...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-31-2008

  • Living in DoLs houses

    Just when I thought I was pretty hot on all the acronyms that are flung around the workplace, I have been hit with a few more. It came as a result of a conversation with one of the managers (there are whole swathes of different levels of managers in the local authority that become very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008
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