Institutional abuse and Evictions of Care Home Residents

Dear Kirklees 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

Dear Jenny Cartwright,

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

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Kirklees Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Institutional abuse and
Evictions of Care Home Residents'.

The response is very late.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/in...

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley