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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

The CMA makes clear, what you say must be true and accurate

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.

BUSINESS is failing to meet the needs and aspirations of older people in the home and in the workplace, according to the Minister for...

The truth is, the language is representative of a prevalent anti-age attitude in our society - which has even won support among many older p

Older people are people. They are us. If we are serious about stopping such crime, we need to ask why they are such easy targets and do some

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

CQC moves to restrict admissions at two Midlands care homes but company websites appear reluctant to reveal new bad rating

Even well-funded private homes have been found guilty of providing too few staff – in a deliberate profit-related move.

The reports are equally bad. Why is the home for older people closed while the one for people with disabilities is left open?

There were never enough staff

Almost all have been labelled unsafe by the regulator

An excellent and committed senior carer, once said to me about some staff on her team: ‘They have no pride in their work. They just don’t ca

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