Thousands of England’s residential care homes are failing their elderly residents with the care they provide, analysis of the latest available Care Quality Commission (CQC) data shows.
In six out of England’s nine regions, around a fifth of adult care homes are rated inadequate or requiring improvement, according to the most recent overall ratings by the CQC.
Trade bodies representing care providers say many CQC ratings are years out of date, with thousands of homes carrying a rating from more than six years ago, including many rated inadequate or requiring improvement.
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These ratings, and a lack of consistency in the recording of them, are an emblem of the social care crisis that Andy Burnham has vowed to fix, industry leaders said.
