Council’s Care Bosses Criticised Over Double Tragedy
Social services bosses in Oldham have been criticised after a disabled 81-year-old woman died of thirst while her son lay dead upstairs. The family’s care co-ordinator found the bodies of Clara Schofield and her 58-year-old deaf and mute son George at their Roundthorn home on April 12 last year – the day she was due to discuss a replacement home help after care was withdrawn ten weeks earlier.
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