The firm which ran the shamed care home in Bristol where vulnerable residents were secretly filmed being slapped and doused with cold water is to close another home it runs in Solihull.Read
Private care home owners have been told they must behave in a “mature” fashion when negotiating the fees they receive from Birmingham City Council.Read
An attempt to force Birmingham City Council to increase the fees it pays private residential and nursing homes to look after frail elderly patients has been thrown out by the High Court.Read
A care home company has been fined £100,000 after being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive in connection with the death of a 91-year-old woman at a home in Walsall.Read
Hard-up Birmingham City Council is paying private care homes just £52 a day to look after elderly patients with dementia and other mental illnesses.
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A Labour MP has condemned two close aides of former Prime Minister Tony Blair for their role in ailing care home provider Southern Cross, which runs 43 homes in the West Midlands.Read
The Government must be ready to take over threatened care homes owned by ailing Southern Cross and hand them over to local authorities, a Birmingham MP has insisted.Read
Elderly and vulnerable care home residents will not suffer even if ailing care provider Southern Cross Healthcare faces collapse, Birmingham City Council has pledged.Read
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