Adult Social Care

Implied Duty It is a well-established principle that a contract of employment is subject to an implied term that an employer must not, without reasonable and proper cause, act in…

The Equality Act 2010 Employees and workers are able to claim that they have been subjected to victimisation if they can show that they have suffered a detriment as a result…

Almost a third of recent inspections ‘Requires improvement’ I’ve been looking at some recent CQC reports and it seems that the CQC inspection teams aren’t pulling any punches when it…

In the case of Federacion de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL, The European Court of Justice has ruled that, for those workers who spend…

The news that people with learning disabilities are being prescribed anti-psychotic medication inappropriately reminds me of the ‘chemical cosh’ situations of the bad old days. We need to ask questions…

I was speaking to a commissioner recently about the difficulty she had negotiating with some providers over fees, because nobody at a local level was able to make decisions. Inevitably,…

I have long had a ‘thing’ about the unnecessary use of laxatives. Its time to stop assuming these are a necessary fact of life for those with profound and complex…

Most care service managers will tell you that when it comes to nursing staff, there is a small pool of talent and a huge amount of competition. As a consequence…