Institutional abuse and Evictions of Care Home Residents

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Dear Barking & Dagenham 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

Freedom of Information, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

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Clist Julie, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

Dear Mr Paulley

Thank you for your e-mail received 28 June 2010 requesting information regarding care providers and evictions.

Jacquie Harris will arrange for the information to be provided to you no later than 23 July 2010.

Whilst it is the Council's policy to provide information wherever possible, I need to advise you that there are a number of exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. These may prevent me from releasing all or some of the information you have asked for. You will, however be informed if this is the case and why.

Yours sincerely

Julie Clist
Business Support Officer
Corporate Complaints & FOI Team
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Room 104 Town Hall
1 Town Square
Barking
IG11 7HE
020 8227 2875

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Fenn Michael, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

Dear Mr Paulley

Request for information LBBD:47337

Your request for information has now been considered and the information
is below;

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.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham do not collect this
information.

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.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham have
not placed anybody in a Leonard Cheshire care home in the past 3 years

If you need any more information, or if I can be of any further help,
please contact me.

If you are not satisfied with the way that I have dealt with your request
you can make a complaint by writing to the Corporate Complaints Team, Room
104, Town Hall, 1 Town Square, Barking IG11 7HE Alternatively you can
make your complaint on-line at [1]www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk or you can
e-mail your complaint to [2][email address].

If you are still not satisfied, after following our Corporate Complaints
procedure, you can take your complaint to the Information Commissioner.
Full details of how to do this will be made available on request.

Yours sincerely

Michael Fenn | Senior Information Officer

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham | Room B34 Civic Centre | Dagenham
| RM10 7BY

Phone: 020 8227 2619 | Fax: 020 8227 2324

Email: Michael.Fenn[3]@lbbd.gov.uk | [4]www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk

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