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Directorate of Corporate Services
Director and Monitoring Officer Davina Fiore
Doug Paulley Email:
27th July 2010
Dear Mr. Paulley
Re: Freedom of Information Request
Our Ref: iw10/6/43780
I am writing to you with regard to your Freedom of Information request dated and received on the 25th June 2010. I have now received the following statement from Community Services in response to your enquiry:
1) Please supply information relating to the incidence of attempts by care providers to evict residents in care homes - that is, care providers giving residents notice to leave or otherwise attempting to get them to leave without their involvement in the decision or against their wishes. Please indicate the number of cases you are aware of for the last 3 years, also indicating if and how your council responded to the situation, and what was the ultimate result of the situation, i.e. if and how the situation was resolved.
We do not collate this information. However, if a breakdown of a placement does occur the provider would need to request an urgent review of placement meeting (in accordance with the contract) where the care manager, resident and family are involved. If the provider still wishes to give notice a discharge notice would be raised by the provider and the local authority would work with the provider whilst an alternative placement is found.
2) Please provide me with the number of instances your council is aware of where either CQC or local authority safeguarding procedures have substantiated allegations of institutional abuse of a Leonard Cheshire social care service user over the past 3 years. Further, please provide anonymised information on the alleged behaviour by Leonard Cheshire resulting in the conclusion.
There have been no cases of alleged abuse in respect of the Isle of Wight Leonard Cheshire Home in the last 3 years.
The Isle of Wight Council in complying with their statutory duty under sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act to release the enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright holder of the enclosed information will continue to be protected by the law. If you wish to use this information, you may require approval or licence from the copyright holder.
If you have any complaints in respect of your information request, please write to the Corporate Information Unit at Floor 3, County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1UD or complete the on-line appeals form that can be found at www.iwight.com/information. If your complaint is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you have the ultimate right, once you have exhausted the internal appeals process, to appeal to the Information Commissioner.
Yours Sincerely
Susanne Holman-Harris
Information Governance Manager
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Susanne Holman-Harris
Information Governance Manager
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