“Ministers have warned of the risk of ‘institutionalised abuse’ in care homes and hospitals for people with learning disabilities, as five recent inspections showed four were breaking the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Equality and Human Rights Commission says elderly people face unchecked ‘ageism’ from council-funded home care.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home care services in England are to be subject to a fresh inspection by the Care Quality Commission from April.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A code of conduct and minimum standards of training is to be drawn up for health care assistants and care workers who look after the elderly in England.”
BBC News, 16th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Berry v Star Autos Ltd and others [2011] EWCA Civ 1304; [2011] WLR (D) 327
“On a claim to which there were two or more defendants the court had power to order an interim payment under CPR r 25.7(1)(e) if it were satisfied that at least one of the defendants against whom the application for interim payment was being made would be held liable and each of those defendants was insured; the fact that there might be another defendant who was not insured was immaterial.”
WLR Daily, 10th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A young care home worker walked free today after a jury failed to reach a verdict on whether she killed an elderly resident by setting fire to her room.”
The Independent, 14th November 2011
Source: www.independent.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
“An elderly woman with dementia left in an unclean and unhygienic home in Worcestershire has got compensation.”
BBC News, 14th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A local authority had been entitled to withdraw the funding for a night-time carer to assist a disabled person to use a commode when required, and to instead provide her with incontinence pads to wear at night.”
WLR Daily, 6th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A judge said she was troubled by the implications of a supreme court decision against a former ballerina which campaigners say could lead to the elderly being ‘warehoused’ at home ‘without regard to their quality of life’.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.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
“The basic human rights of older people being given care at home are being overlooked, with some left in bed for 17 hours between visits, according to a new report today.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A care home deputy manager who stole £11,500 from an 84-year-old resident has been jailed for 12 months.”
BBC News, 6th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A disabled woman suffered appalling burns when careworkers lowering her into a scalding bath mistook her distress for an epileptic fit, the High Court heard today.”
The Independent, 3rd February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A carer who defrauded an elderly man of about £300,000 has been jailed.”
BBC News, 30th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 31-year-old care worker at Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire has admitted having sex with a mentally-ill patient.”
BBC News, 13th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who abused elderly people with dementia at the care home where she worked has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 9th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Smith v Northamptonshire County Council [2009] UKHL 27; [2009] WLR (D) 165
“A care worker who was injured when using a defective wheelchair ramp at a client’s home had not been using equipment ‘used by an employee at work’ so as to make her local authority employer, who was aware of the ramp but did not own it, strictly liable under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2009
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.
“A care assistant who murdered a 79-year-old dementia patient at a Cheshire care home by setting fire to her bed has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 1st May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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