Care Home News

Should care home owners be criminally liable for abuse and neglect?

04 Feb 2013

Paul Burstow MP, former care minister
YES Former care minister Paul Burstow MP has proposed new criminal sanctions for care home owners who allow the abuse and neglect of vulnerable patients. The Liberal Democrat MP has published a report, ‘Care and Corporate Neglect’...

Nadra Ahmed, chairman of the National Care Association
NO Nadra Ahmed, chairman of the National Care Association has called on the Government to be cautious in its response to Paul Burstow’s call to make care home owners criminally accountable. She believes it would be unfair to........