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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The number of people working nights has increased to more than three million since the recession and is set to rise further because of plans to extend services and the
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Scottish Care has published a Supplementary Report to their research report on recruitment and retention, ‘In the Front Line’, which was published in June 2015. This Supplementary Report builds on
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The average cost of a care home now exceeds £29,000 a year after rising by more than £700 over the past 12 months, according to figures compiled by a nursing
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