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Special Measures – My view

21/07/201424/06/2020 Beth BrittonD4Dementia

Last week’s announcement that adult social care providers who deliver sub-standard care face being put into Special Measures from April 2015 proved to be quite a momentous event for me. I was involved in the announcement (details here), and it…

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Why, oh why, oh why?

09/10/201327/06/2020 Beth BrittonD4Dementia

Incensed. Appalled. Outraged. Indeed there are a plethora of words to describe how I felt on hearing reports of a rise in suspected cases of elder abuse in England, but I’m not sure any of them accurately do my feelings…

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