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Worst Care of 2018 - awards for worst care in a corporate home, worst care in an independent home, worst care provider.

Worst care of the year - Yorkshire, Lancashire, Bristol, Devon, Lincolnshire, Birmingham, Essex, Manchester

Families voiced concerns but the website boasts: 'In our care homes we specialise in providing quality care.' [sic]

One family had taken the extraordinary step of employing a private carer to come into the home

YOU can’t always get what you want, as the song goes. But when it comes to the worst three corporate care homes this month, frail and...

The fact that such an appallingly bad home boasted a CCTV system will raise questions about the benefits of cameras

Official reports describe a profit-driven casual indifference on the part of care homes bent on maximising revenue rather than providing car

Another person was woken up by staff shouting their name in their face.

"There is not enough staff here. I feel it's unsafe and an accident waiting to happen"

There were never enough staff

Almost all have been labelled unsafe by the regulator

A shocking litany of injuries, abuse, police investigations - even deaths - is contained in recent reports by England’s care regulator....

The Chase Care Centre in Watford must be one of the biggest homes in the country - it was given an 'Inadequate' rating last week

Three care homes were branded 'Inadequate' by regulators last week - after concerns were raised by third parties.

'You work hard all your life and end up in a place like this.'

"We are invisible" - said one care home resident

In a truly upsetting report, the Knottingley-based home is seen as desperately short of staff.

We looked at the care records of a person who had presented with physical aggression that had resulted in another vulnerable person sufferin

Could it be that the inspectors failed to notice problems a year ago? Or could it be that they were not there?

Concerns about the awareness and effectiveness of the authorities do not in any way excuse bad care