A care home deputy manager tried to take more than £22,000 belonging to an elderly resident, a tribunal heard. Ratnamanee Bundhoo obtained three signed cheques in the summer of 2012
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A joint inspection of services for older people in Glasgow has praised the quality of some services, but also made ten recommendations for improvement. The joint inspection was carried out
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The Care Inspectorate have announced that during 2015 and into 2016 there will be vaccination for seasonal influenza and pneumococcal vaccin for people in in residential care. Anyone aged 70
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A “depraved” female care worker has been jailed for 10 years for sexually assaulting three elderly people at a residential care home, police said. Christina Sethi, 25, admitted five offences
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The Care Inspectorate, Scotland’s social care scrutiny and improvement body, has published a review of the first three years of its work. The organisation was set up in April 2011
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The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sarah Rochira, has said she is ‘extremely disappointed’ by the response to her review of elderly protection in care homes from the Welsh Government.
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Carers who concocted a lie to explain away a pensioner’s fall and then delayed raising the alarm have been spared jail with relatives calling the sentence “appalling”. Sabrina Duncan (pictured)
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Rogue employers who give jobs to illegal immigrants will be hit with the “full force” of the government machine ministers have warned. Immigration minister James Brokenshire said the Government was
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July saw a trio of new, state-of-the-art homes added to Care UK’s portfolio of care homes in East Anglia. The first residents arrived at Cavell Court (pictured) – a new
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Two care workers who admitted neglect after a pensioner fell at a residential nursing home are due to be sentenced. Pensioner Norah Boyle suffered a head injury as Benter Ouma
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