Shaun Lintern Department of Health and Social Care The #DutyOfCandour applies across all health and care providers in England. It was disappointing to see the Government focus on healthcare in their press release on this - we need to see a thorough review of how this duty is implemented in care settings too!
#CareRights

Woman died at mental hospital after excessive water drinking, inquest told…

*U gotta wonder what we r actually paying for… theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

These are just the recorded incidents , you can expect the actual figure is many many times more .

'Predatory staff who target vulnerable adults in care homes are free to move jobs unchallenged, The Independent can reveal, as almost 10,000 incidents of sexual abuse have been…

Finally got round to watching #TheAssembly

If you haven’t watched it yet, please do carve out 30mins of your time to do so…

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Remembering Matthew Seligman who died on this day in 2020. An amazingly talented musician, human rights lawyer and a truly lovely person. Never forgotten.

'The Welsh Government denied people were being held 'inappropriately.' '
Deny all you like, we know what is going on right through this land.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

My newsfeed is flooded with posts about the protest! Love this! Well done everyone for doing this.. I fully support this protest for all those #stolenlives ❤️ #homesnothospitals #ATU

We have been observing each Court judgement of #familylaw cases being reported by the helpful Family Law News

Reporting of cases is vital to democracy and transparency.

What is abundantly clear is each case to which 'M' or 'W' raises allegations of abuse, harm, child abuse by 'F'…

On SNJ: When disabled young people reach 16, finding the further education they deserve is never easy. Natspec has come up with six tenets of a well-functioning SEND FE system. Policy Manager, Ruth Perry explains specialneedsjungle.com/well-functioni…

Appalling response from Welsh Government to today’s #StolenLivesWales protest. Of course people are systematically being locked up….. quite simply there is no community care.

And that’s a deliberate decision.

Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Eluned Morgan Dawn Bowden Vaughan Gething…

Fern Foster Inquest Day 10 - Safeguarding Adults Review georgejulian.co.uk/2024/04/17/fer…

'I wanted to ensure, whilst the terms of reference and ambit is entirely different from the inquest that those recommendations were included' Senior Coroner Crispin Butler #autism #safeguarding

Another inquest into another death of another young woman - Lillian Lucas - in a psychiatric hospital in Somerset

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

“Lily would frequently comment that the ward was short-staffed. Milton ward relied heavily upon agency staff” (Cygnet hospital, Kewstoke)

Marcus Hanlin Day 2 - Laura Bolus georgejulian.co.uk/2024/04/16/mar…

She was Activities Co-Ordinator at Brandon Trust Cheddar Grove, the nursing home where Marcus lived. She conducted a sensory activity with dyed rice and hidden conkers, before leaving the room and Marcus unattended in it.

Protecting open justice in action

A member or the public (claire martin) asks for reporting restrictions to be varied.

Judge agrees saying 'here’s no reason that RBKC shouldn’t be identified. That will be taken out of the order“.

openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/04/15/a-m… via Open Justice Court of Protection Project

Over my many years as a journalist my stories have often made an impact- discussed in other media or in parliament, influenced policy . But I think this is the first occasion when one of my reports looks likely to change the law .Meirion Jones Louise Tickle Andrew Hosken

George is bouncing from inquest to inquest. When will this ever end? Or at least become rare?

If you want to know more about why people are protesting about #stolenlives at the Senedd today, watch our conversation with Dr Dawn Cavanagh here.

youtu.be/AllLSBOEW9U?si…

You might want to watch it too Welsh Government. You might learn something.

Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Eluned Morgan…

👇 📢brilliant protest led by Dr Dawn Cavanagh
#homesnothospitals It all starts and ends in the community! Invest in community support!

Perhaps every primary school exclusion ought to trigger automatic consideration as to whether the school has breached Equality Act 2010 s 15 (discrimination arising from disability)

Man with Down’s syndrome died from choking after swallowing conkers at care home, inquest hears theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…