“A son’s battle to care for his elderly father made legal history on Monday when a judge ruled that his case against the local authority could be reported in ‘real time’.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A company that closed one of its private hospitals after horrifying allegations of abuse must make ‘root and branch improvements’, a social care watchdog has said.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“There was a ‘systemic failure to protect people’ by the owners of a Bristol hospital at the centre of abuse allegations involving vulnerable adults, care watchdogs have said.”
The Independent, 18th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two nursing home workers who were found guilty of wilfully neglecting a man who broke his hip have been sentenced to community service.”
BBC News, 27th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Vulnerable adults in care in England are to be given more protection from abuse, the government has said.”
BBC News, 5th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A quarter of the 1,600 children held in young offenders’ institutions in England and Wales have been in care, a report by prison inspectors has found.”
BBC News, 26th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The former owner and manager of a care home in Southampton have had their convictions for neglecting elderly residents quashed on appeal.”
BBC News, 19th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Owners of a nursing home in Cornwall have been told to “improve standards of care” or face enforcement action, by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).”
BBC News, 13th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Elderly people will be guaranteed a minimum level of council help under plans for the most radical overhaul of social care in 60 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A solicitor who has battled for years on behalf of disabled and elderly residents of care homes has been told she will get no legal aid work in the coming year – because of a typing error.”
The Independent, 31st January 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Birmingham care home has been fined £150,000 after one of its residents was accidentally strangled by the seatbelt of her wheelchair.”
BBC News, 19th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The money Pembrokeshire council pays care homes to look after residents will be challenged in the High Court later.”
BBC News, 14th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Cornwall woman’s family is challenging a ruling by the NHS to send her to a nursing home or get agency carers because she has Alzheimer’s.”
BBC News, 21st September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hospices that care for victims of a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure hope to get help with treatment costs following a landmark court ruling.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nine illegal immigrants arrested during a police and UK border raid at a care home in Hampshire have been deported.”
BBC News, 20th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Drake and another v Foster Wheeler Ltd [2010] EWHC 2004 (QB); [2010] WLR (D) 232
“Claims for hospice care were rare and were directly analogous to recoverable claims made by claimants from tortfeasor defendants for the recovery of compensation on behalf of relatives who had provided gratuitous care to the claimant in order to alleviate the consequences of tortiously inflicted injuries.”
WLR Daily, 19th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“An NHS inquiry is to be held into how a former care home manager in Somerset was able to siphon off prescription drugs from the elderly people she nursed, the BBC can reveal.”
BBC News, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A council apologised today and admitted paying £12,000 in compensation to two girls who were sexually abused by two children in care.”
The Independent, 21st July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former care home manager who stole drugs from residents to feed her own addiction has been jailed for 10 years for killing an elderly woman.”
BBC News, 21st May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of the longest-running legal cases in UK history, centred on systemic sexual abuse at children’s homes in the north-west of England, is poised to end after a judge found in favour of two men who claimed they had been sexually assaulted while in care.”
The Observer, 9th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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