An exclusive article in the Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2014, presented analyses by journalists Ben Bryant, Holly Watt and Claire Newell – which suggest that a) one in three care homes fails its inspections and that b) some are allowed to continue operate despite repeated failings.
The article is based on statistics made available by the Care Quality Commission, which, after previously recognised failings, introduced a new regulatory system in 2010: in 2013, 6,814 of 23,152 inspections resulted in failure*.
*We will update this blog on how failure is defined: we suspect it means failure against one or more of five essential criteria. (The article cites a care home which on several occasions has failed against all five criteria, but continues to operate…)