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• ‘How would you like to be in this dump?’ Families’ horror at privately run UK care homes

  23-03-2023 18:09
  
  Operators are pocketing very large sums from councils while relatives speak of shocking conditionsAfter watching his girlfriend suffer in a dementia home so poor it faced possible closure, Donald Hedges reached a simple conclusion: “It’s a robbery of taxpayers’ money.”In common with about a quarter of a million people in England, the state paid for Lilian Williams’ care. She lived in the privately owned Forest Edge care home in Southampton. Continue reading...
  
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• English councils spent £480m on ‘inadequate’ care homes in four years

  23-03-2023 17:00
  
  Exclusive: Investigation finds huge sums of taxpayers’ money spent on poor quality private homes Taxpayers have spent close to half a billion pounds buying beds in the worst care homes in England in the last four years, driving profits for private investors while residents suffer unsafe treatment, a Guardian investigation has revealed.In what one affected family branded “a robbery of taxpayers’ money” and Labour said was “scandalous”, about £480m is esti
  
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• A third of care homes in England have considered closing due to rising energy bills

  23-03-2023 07:00
  
  Care England says there is ‘no justification for charging such financially crippling rates’ A third of care homes across England have considered closing during the last year due to “financially crippling” running costs, as concerns rise that gas suppliers are profiteering at the expense of small businesses.The energy regulator, Ofgem, has admitted that some suppliers may be charging small companies rates which cannot be justified by falling gas market prices. Continue rea
  
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