THE MACUR review is an independent review of the Waterhouse Inquiry established by the UK government on November 8 last year, taking its name from Mrs Justice Macur, a judge in the family division of the High Court, who is leading it....
Synopsis A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children’s home – a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal. UK Original title Care IMDb Rating 7.6 259 votes TMDb Rating 6.5 2 votes ...
Attacking the way care homes are run by private companies, many of which are based offshore, extracting profits of 12 per cent a year and often paying no UK taxes, Baroness Altmann suggested they could be “nationalised” albeit “temporarily”. Baroness Altmann is clearly angry with the poor...
Public interest in the surveillance of care workers employed to care for older and disabled adults is rising rapidly in the UK. A number of high-profile exposés of elder abuse in private living spaces have fuelled concerns about the ability of regulatory agencies to protect vulnerable adults. Ne...
Perhaps the most high-profile of these was the failure of Castlebeck, the learning disability care provider responsible for the Winterbourne View abuse scandal (CQC, 2014). Failures of care providers are now regulated through the Care Act 2014, which gave the Care Quality Commission a statutory ...
feminist and disabilityactivistmovements have exposed and campaigned against these failings and exclusions. Moreover, what became so unavoidably obvious in the ‘Windrush scandal’ of 2018Footnote11was the extent to which it was a colonial project (see Gentleman2019). It was built, and indeed ...
DoH launches learning disabilities white paper, 3. Retainers for care home GPs a scandal, 4. Charter fights for effective pain relief, 5. Parkinsons disease not being treated properly, 6. In brief: Matrons role To view this article...
Watch the latest from ITV News - 95-year old Clare Nowland was left in critical condition after being tasered while holding a knife at her care home in Cooma, New South Wales.
Contemporary American homelessness is an outrage, a national scandal. Its character requires a careful, sophisticated, and dispassionate analysis, which this paper provides, but its tragedy demands something more direct and human, less qualified and detached. Authors had tried to present the facts ...
Even before the media settled on Russia as the culprit, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called the scandal “made up” and a “hokey story,” while NBC’s Hallie Jackson described it as “dubious” and “questionably sourced.” As the Times and Post rang the Russia alarm last week, neither the...