Daily Archives: 05/08/2011

Care watchdog faces new questions over inspection failures

The care regulator faces further serious questions over its failure to root out evidence of abuse and poor standards, after publishing a series of reports into services run by the company at the centre of a major care scandal.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today published reports into standards at 23 services for people with learning [...]

Website highlight’s London’s inclusion shame as it prepares for 2012

Angry disabled activists have launched a website to highlight the “shameful” failure to put access and inclusion at the heart of next year’s London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
They have focused their anger on the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who they say is painting an inaccurate and overly positive view of access in the capital, [...]