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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

There are some 16,000 care homes in England and the regulator usually issues dozens of reports a week - some shocking, some critical,...

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

From the dry report emerged a figure better placed in fiction - the dictatorial, angry and insensitive owner/manager

It may sound weird for OLM, but credit where it is due: Britain's biggest homes group, HC-One, has turned Northview Lodge in Sunderland...

It never fails to shock that older and vulnerable people live in unsafe and disgusting conditions. It is so much worse when the...

A relative told the inspectors: 'If my family member is sat there day after day in the wrong wheelchair, without her glasses, in someone

Both homes have been named by WSCC has having significant safeguarding concerns and yet they are still home to more than 60 adults.

Merstone Hall's use of pictures does raise a smile - for sheer chutzpah.

Best home of the week Red Oaks, Worst homes of the week Orchard Lodge, Horsham and Duchess Gardens, Bingley

Local authority says it has concerns over significant shortcomings as Inadequate notice slapped on Orchard Lodge

Elderly kept in bed 20 hours a day because of lack of staff

Residents were found to be on the brink of malnutrition, neglected, in danger and ignored.

OLM is not making it up and we make no apology for highlighting the worst cases each week

Very very unsafe. Very scary

Forest Care Village in Borehamwood was OLM’s unequalled Worst Care Home of the Week last week – not least because of a police...

HERTFORDSHIRE police is investigating a death linked to Forest Care Village in Borehamwood, one of the UK’s biggest residential homes,...

A damning CQC report this week reveals serious concerns over Forest Care Village in Borehamwood, where inspectors found a resident 'cryi