Institutional abuse and Evictions of Care Home Residents

Doug Paulley made this Freedom of Information request to Greenwich Borough Council

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From: Doug Paulley

25 June 2010

Dear Greenwich Borough Council,

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 sitaution, i.e.
if and how the situation was resolved.

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 insitutional 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.

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

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From: foi
Greenwich Borough Council

25 June 2010

Dear Mr Paulley

Your Request has been logged as RFI/02224. You may expect a
response within the prescribed 20 working days time period, i.e. by 23
July 2010

FOI Coordinator, on behalf of Greenwich Council
4th floor, Riverside House, Woolwich High Street, London SE18 6BU
Tel: 020 8921 5084

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From: Doug Paulley

27 July 2010

Dear foi,

I note that you have not responded to this Freedom of Information
Request, and that the 20 working day deadline has now passed. By
law, you should normally have responded promptly and by 26 July
2010

I wonder if you could please indicate the status of my request and
respond as soon as is practicable.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Doug Paulley

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From: Alan Soskin
Greenwich Borough Council

27 July 2010

Dear Mr Paulley

I apologise for the delay in responding to you, and for not keeping you
advised of progress.

The information required to respond is still being collated by officers. I
estimate that we will be able to respond to you by the middle of next
week.

Once again, my apologies for the delay.

Alan Soskin
Corporate Information Manager, Greenwich Council
Human Resources & Organisational Improvement
4th floor, Riverside House, Woolwich High Street, London SE18 6BU
Tel: 020 8921 5084

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From: Alan Soskin
Greenwich Borough Council

29 July 2010

Dear Mr Paulley

I write with reference to your Request, shown below. Once again, my
apologies for the delay in responding to you. Our response is as follows.

1) Please supply information relating to the incidence of attempts by
care providers to evict residents in care homes
There have been no attempts by care providers to evict residents from
their care homes.

2) the number of instances your council is aware of where either CQC or
local authority safeguarding procedures have substantiated allegations of
insitutional abuse of
a Leonard Cheshire social care service user over the past 3 years.
There have been no substantiated allegations of institutional abuse
of a Leonard Cheshire social care service user over the past 3 years.

Alan Soskin
Corporate Information Manager, Greenwich Council
Human Resources & Organisational Improvement
4th floor, Riverside House, Woolwich High Street, London SE18 6BU
Tel: 020 8921 5084

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