“Five organisations have received coroner’s letters highlighting the ‘disturbing’ death of a woman after paramedics were called to a care home.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Death rates in care and nursing homes in England are to be monitored by the Care Quality Commission to try to identify problems at an earlier stage.”
BBC News, 17th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The collapse of Britain’s biggest investigation into elderly care home neglect has prompted calls for a reform of the law.”
BBC News, 4th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Much of the House of Lords debate surrounding yesterday’s Second Reading of the Care and Support Bill focused on seeking solutions to complex issues around the future provision of care. Additionally, as several peers flagged, the Bill also provides a timely opportunity to clarify which bodies have legal obligations to uphold protections under the Human Rights Act. Baroness Campbell noted ‘those who receive their care not from a public authority but from a private body lack the full protection of the Human Rights Act…[This] is a loophole that must be closed.’”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd May 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A retired Church of England priest found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on children at a Barnardo’s home has been jailed for 10 years.”
The Guardian, 20th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former employee who was awaiting an appeal against her dismissal was not ‘employed’ for the purposes of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Freedom of Information request reveals extent of stun-gun use by police in psychiatric wards.”
The Independent, 7th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A new inquiry has found ‘significant’ evidence of ‘systemic and serious’ sexual
and physical abuse of children as young as seven in care homes in North Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Rules on whether children can be placed in care homes far away from family and friends are to be overhauled in the wake of the Rochdale grooming scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 24hth April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two private care home operators are attempting to sue the leader of the council at the centre of the Rochdale child grooming scandal for libel after he suggested vulnerable children would not be safe in the area.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New National Standards for Youth Justice Services have been launched.”
Youth Justice Board, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“An overhaul of how police deal with missing people could put vulnerable children
at risk of being groomed and sexually exploited, the NSPCC has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A landmark programme of unannounced inspections in hospitals and care homes has
found that more than a third are still failing to respect elderly people’s basic
dignity, despite a series of scandals.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The recent case of Birmingham CC v Beech contains a wealth of legal issues but sadly for the Defendant, none of them was decided in her favour. Mrs Beech’s parents had been joint tenants of a 3 bedroom property at 31 Tilshead Close, Birmingham since 1967. Mrs B’s father passed away in 1994 and her mother succeeded to the tenancy. Mrs B moved in to the property with her new partner in 2007 in order to provide care for her mother. Between 2008 and 2009, five offers of accommodation were made to Mrs B and these were refused for a variety of reasons. Mrs B’s request for her name to be added to the tenancy for Tilshead Close was also refused.”
NearlyLegal, 17th March 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Children in care in England and Wales are being needlessly criminalised for ‘trivial incidents’, MPs have warned.”
BBC News, 14th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A pensioner who was ‘held prisoner’ by a local authority won a legal victory when the council admitted violating her human rights.”
The Independent, 8th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A dispute between care providers and a local authority over the rate due for supporting the care of the elderly in care homes was amenable to judicial review.”
WLR Daily, 17th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
On 11 December 2012 Mr Justice Mostyn in the Court of Protection handed down judgment in a case he described as ‘a sad story’.
Hardwicke Chambers, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The former owner of a care home in Nottinghamshire has been jailed for three years for stealing more than £100,000 from an 80-year-old resident.”
BBC News, 11th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Independent Review of the Waterhouse Tribunal will today publish an Issues Paper calling for views on the scope of the original Inquiry and whether or not it sufficiently investigated specific allegations of child abuse in North Wales care homes.”
Macur Review, 8th January 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
