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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.

The rating confounds claims from the industry that it is not possible to provide excellent care at reasonable prices

'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.

Way to go WSCC. Who is giving you PR advice? The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

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,...

In a series of emails seen by OLM, WSCC's tactics are laid bare - casting a shocking light on the council’s strategy of stone-walling th

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

So problems on a postcard to the CMA

The report even questioned whether the case would have been handled differently had the men not had disabilities

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...

What this case highlights is that injuries to adults with learning disabilities do not receive the same response.

Ms Keeley said: ‘This report is a damning account of serious multi-agency failure in the cases of Gary Lewis and Matthew Bates, for which no

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