Institutional abuse and Evictions of Care Home Residents

Dear Mr Paulley

Re: Information Request - Reference Number: 2010060074

Thank you for your request for information received on 25 June 2010. We
are currently processing your request in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will respond to you within 20 working days.

For clarification we are using the following information for the purpose
of processing your request.

Information regarding attempts by care providers to evict residents within
the last three years and how Shropshire Council responded. Also the number
of instances when Shropshire Council uncovered institutional abuse within
the last three years.

If you feel the information is inaccurate or requires amendment, please
notify us as soon as possible using the contact details provided below.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Trivedi McKay
Information Governance Team
Shropshire Council
Tel: 01743 252195

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Dear Mr Paulley
Further to your request for information received on 25 June 2010, we reply
as follows taking your points in order.

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.

We have not had, in the past 3 years, any incidents where a provider
attempted to evict or give notice to residents.

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.

Learning Disability - No
Older People North - 1 (not POVA)
Mental Health - No
Older People Shrewsbury - No
Adult Protection - No
Leonard Cheshire - No longer in Shropshire

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.

There are no recorded instances where we have substantiated any
allegations in relation to Leonard Chesire.

There are no Leonard Cheshire homes in Shropshire and we only have a small
number of Shropshire residents placed in Leonard Cheshire homes outside
the County.

We trust this answers your request satisfactorily.

Yours sincerley

Roy Morris
Information Governance Officer

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Dear Mr Paulley

Further to your recent request for information received on 21 February, we
reply as follows

You requested:

Any information you hold on the incidence of people living in residential
care catering for themselves instead of eating the residential home's
food.

- This information is not collected and therefore not held.

How the food is funded in such cases; and if such residents are prepayed
or reimbursed by the home or the Council for this cost, how much they are
given to pay for their food.

- This information is not collected and therefore not held.

We are sorry that we are unable to assist further on this occasion.

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

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