disability, data protection, activism and other such
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has come in for somewhat of a bashing recently. But I didn’t think they would lie as well. In response to a recent documentary exposing care home abuse, CQC said the following in their media statement: CQC carries out an unannounced inspection of every care and nursing home in England…
Amongst the various other things that annoyed me about yesterday’s shameful treatment of disabled people courtesy of the Lords (et tu, Lib Dems?) was a vomit-inducing self-congratulatory homily by Lord Low, who spearheaded this (admittedly influential) report on the withdrawal of mobility allowance for people in residential care. Readers may remember that this nasty proposal…
“Unreasonable” residents Being in residential care, we often get labelled as “unreasonable”. We get told it’s “unreasonable” to want the toilet at short notice, “unreasonable” to expect assistance to access the community, “unreasonable” to want to get up at a certain time, etc. etc. Whenever and wherever there’s communal living, and particularly where there’s communal…