The CQC, which failed to follow up tip-offs from a whistleblower who then contacted Panorama, has admitted its mistakes were ‘unforgivable’. Putting aside the permanent moral stain on British society caused by its neglect and worse of elderly or handicapped people (far more effort is put into Bowdlerising the language than caring for those considered to be not fully functioning members of the human race), the question is whether regulators in general do what...Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Public regulation and private squalor
melanie phillips
Amidst widespread horror at the revelations by BBC TV Panorama of shocking systematic abuse at residential home for people with learning disabilities, the Prime Minister’s office has asked for an account of what various official agencies knew about the place. Squarely in the frame is the care homes regulator the Care Quality Commission, which clearly has many questions to answer. The Guardian reports:
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