Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is learning of the pressures faced by conscientious led Care Providers striving to offer a caring and safe environment to both service users and staff. Safety monitoring is proving to be a invaluable care assist tool - bringing a more open and transparent culture into care homes as well as saving valuable resources within the care home sector and the NHS
Your Rights: Access to Medical Care during Covid 19
Covid-19 is creating unique issues for those involved in our care homes, residents and their loved ones are being distanced and prevented from close human contact. Understand your rights - click the button below to view the report written by Author Jeremy Cama
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable has been included in a submission to the Law Commission on abuse of our elderly to be made 'hate crimes'. Click the button below to view the submission...
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable working with the care sector to raise awareness on the preventable/non preventable incidents/accidents that can happen in care homes. We are raising national awareness for a more open and transparent care culture by championing the use of safety monitoring throughout communal areas in all U.K. care homes.The CCFTV Organisation
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable (CCFTV) was founded by former promotions and airline professional, Jayne Connery, who lives in Buckinghamshire. During her time in the care sector, she saw an urgent need for better protection for both carers and vulnerable residents living with dementia and a decision was made to take her mother back home due to a lack of transparency in her care. Jayne struggled to navigate the care system and experienced little support when trying to communicate her mother's care needs. Giving up her job to become a care partner, she set up a dementia support group for families. Through sheer hard work and commitment, CCFTV is now a national, not for profit, safety in elderly care organisation working with the sector to champion and promote the use of safety monitoring in communal areas within all UK care homes, particularly communities caring for elderly living with dementia. The work we undertake brings families and care workers to us seeking our help and advice. CCFTV is the only safety monitoring in care organisation that directly supports families and carers by working together with the care sector, including commissioning groups, safeguard teams and social workers to help bring positive outcomes. CCFTV supports families through evictions as well as being invited to care homes to talk about the benefits safety monitoring will bring to all who live and work in care. We are regularly asked to comment on elderly dementia care /social care issues on TV and national news media and constantly raise awareness to a care sector that despite being vastly under-funded and lacking support has incredible and dedicated care professionals working in it. CCFTV - TOGETHER, WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE #ellensmemory
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable will be visiting Iceni House Care Home on the 6th of August 2021 to meet staff and residents. Care Home Manager, Dawn Bunter contacted CCFTV to say their home is now preparing to instal safety monitoring in communal areas to better protect residents and care staff.
Tuesday 6th July 2021
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was delighted to be invited to one of Hallmark's Care Homes', Hutton View,
meeting staff and residents and discussing CCFTV's work influencing safer dementia care.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Director speaking on GB News on CCTV in care homes
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable joins care leaders commenting on the recent resignation of the Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock MP in Care Home Professional
WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY 15TH JUNE 2021
CCFTV STRENGTHENS OUR CALL TO SEE THE ABUSE OF OUR ELDERLY BECOME A HATE CRIME
Friday 21st May 2021 - CCFTV Team meeting welcomed Professor Martin Green OBE, Care England,
Nadra Ahmed OBE, National Care Association and MP Joy Morrissey to discuss the work we do in supporting families and care workers that contact us.
(images courtesy of Berkshire Photographer www.stevebagnessphotography.co.uk)
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was one of the first organisations to call for a public inquiry way back in April 2020 and so we are now pleased to see a commitment from the Government to hold a public inquiry on the handling of care homes during the Covid 19 pandemic. If you would like to talk to us in confidence about your experience in a care home during the Covid pandemic, please contact us in strict confidence at ccftv.cares@gmail.com
WHAT WE DO...
We are passionate about working together with care industry professionals to champion better transparency, safety and care particularly to elderly living with dementia. CCFTV attracts national media, commentating on elderly social care issues and gaining tens of thousands of supporters - leading an influential initiative for the use of safety monitoring in all U.K. care environments. We give our services FREE OF CHARGE. CCFTV spent five years collating and submitting evidential documentation for the use of safety monitoring in care homes after our founder’s mother suffered negative care experience and often witnessed care workers have fingers of blame pointing at them after unwitnessed injuries to vulnerable residents occurred. The evidence sought - NHS and care home cost savings, safeguarding reductions, agency spend reduction, assistance with staff disciplinaries, quality monitoring daily, improved inspection report outcomes - as well as a commercial value too. CCFTV gained support from MP’s taking our safety monitoring in care to Westminster Hall and calling it ''persuasive”.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Objectives
Mandatory use of independent safety monitoring in all long term care facilities
Establishing in law that elder abuse is a hate crime and should be treated as such
Ending the shame of resident eviction from care homes on commercial grounds by giving them rights of tenancy
The professionalisation of carer roles with commensurate remuneration
Greater participation of family and advocates in planning and delivery of care
Who supports us...?
Our team are a voluntary team of experts in care ranging from CEO’s Care Providers to Dementia Care trainers. CCFTV raises awareness of elderly social care issues and comments in the National News/TV/Radio. We are a national, not for profit, safety in elderly care organisation and lead influencers for providers to adopt safety monitoring that leads to a more transparent, open and safe caring culture especially when looking after elderly living with dementia. CCFTV also advises NHS and care providers - having worked with NHS Croydon Hospital on their Dementia Care Strategy and invited to talk to families and care staff in on the benefits safety monitoring can bring to all care environments. CCFTV allow families and carers a voice. Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is grateful to all our 80,000 supporters, including families, care staff and leading care industry professionals.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Team meetings welcomes notable care industry professionals
TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE...
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is leading the call for a public inquiry on the Government's handling of care homes during the Covid pandemic - Read our report in the Daily Express - https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1414067/coronavirus-latest-care-home-public-inquiry
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable will be holding our next network meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on Friday 21st May to discuss our work supporting families and careworkers and our leading the call for a public inquiry on the handling of care homes during the pandemic. Joining us will be Professor Martin Green OBE, Care England, Nadra Ahmed OBE, National Care Association and Joy Morrissey MP
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is proud to be the only safety monitoring in care homes initiative in the UK working with the care home sector and helping influence positive change.
In 'Ellen's Memory' - Care Campaign For The Vulnerable
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable response to Covid-19 in Care
Care Campaign For The Vulnerable appeals on behalf of our 410,000 vulnerable elderly in care. Read the article here.
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR NHS AND SOCIAL CARE HEROES
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable continues our call for care homes to adopt safety monitoring. We are delighted to have gained the support of
Joy Morrissey MP
1. Save the NHS in excess of £195 million a year with the mandatory use of Safety Monitoring in communal areas of Care Homes.
2..Reduce pressure on the NHS & avoid unnecessary 999 calls & Ambulance ‘call outs’, distress to Service Users & their loved ones.
3. Create a culture of open, honest & transparent care, building relationships with families with open lines of communication that negate conflict often leading to evictions.
4. Safety monitoring gives a voice to the most vulnerable in our society, protecting all those who live & work in Care Homes, providing answers that, without Safety Monitoring, would go unanswered.
CCFTV would like to draw attention to the high number of evictions there are in the care home sector. Communications are breaking down between family members and Service Users more and more, often resulting in an eviction leaving family members stressed and the Service user placed often at risk of decline.
We also want compulsory communal safety monitoring in care homes that would assist family members and staff when it comes to unwitnessed falls in communal areas and in turn save the NHS millions of pounds and unnecessary hospital admissions.
Both these subjects need urgent addressing as the high volume of correspondence coming into the Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is escalating and vulnerable elderly are placed at risk.
Wednesday 30th June 2021
GB News
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Director Jayne Connery speaking on safety monitoring in care homes
CCFTV will be raising more funds in 2021 for the charity BRACE, Alzheimer's Research.
CCFTV in the Daily Express (permission to use DE logo)
WE COMMENT IN THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS ON ELDERLY SOCIAL CARE ISSUES
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable attends Care Shows speaking on the benefits to safety monitoring in UK care homes particularly caring for our residents living with dementia and their dedicated carers
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable raises money for dementia charities including Alzheimer's UK BRACE
A daughter CCFTV supported sent in an emotional photo of her father being reunited with his grandson after one year apart due to Covid care home restrictions
24th May 2021
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable welcomed Professor Martin Green OBE, Care England, Nadra Ahmed OBE, National Care Association and MP Joy Morrissey to our Team Meeting on Friday 21st May 2021
Wednesday 5th May 2021
It was a privilege to be asked by a granddaughter CCFTV is supporting, to meet her 103-year-old grandmother, Sarah, at her North London care home. Lisa told us "The support and advice CCFTV gave me was so appreciated It's only right you get to meet my grandmother that you've helped so much by supporting me." Thank you to all the staff for facilitating the visit and it was a pleasure to finally get to meet lovely Sarah. All safety and risk assessment, and Covid test, was adhered to.
Tuesday 4th May 2021
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was delighted to be invited to Potters Grange Care Home, Barnet ahead of its official opening. Part of the Ardale group of care homes that supports safety monitoring in communal areas.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable leading the call for a public inquiry on the handling of care homes during the COVID pandemic.
It is absolutely essential that a public enquiry provides answers for many grieving families who believe their loved ones living in care homes were sacrificed in the aim of ’not overwhelming’ the NHS. That view was compounded further, when all relatives were excluded from care home visiting under lockdown rules. Despite their despair and anxiety about a possible decline in standards of care - given care home staff were under severe pressure and often isolating - Government and the Regulator failed to intervene. No insistence that providers adopt safety monitoring systems to ensure third party audit, no appointment of family members as primary carers and in many cases not even a window visit facilitated to bring some comfort to the vulnerable older person.
Unless a public enquiry is progressed, the electorate will know that little or no value is attached to older vulnerable people and that in subsequent periods of severe societal challenge such as a pandemic, older people are simply expendable. Many residents died prematurely and needlessly because not even some basic safeguards were afforded them.
A loving grand-daughter sent CCFTV her video clip wishing her grandmother a happy special birthday during care home restrictions
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable invited to visit Potters Grange Care Home, Barnet, ahead of the opening
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable hosts our Network Teams Meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was delighted to meet with the Executive Board Team at Hallmark Care Homes discussing our work and how we influence the need for a safer and more transparent care sector. Great to meet such a dedicated team!
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable leads the comments in the Daily Express (Friday 6th November 20200 on Daughter arrested for ''rescuing'' gran from a care homehttps://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1356850/woman-arrested-care-home-mother-dementia-coronavirus-lockdownCare
Up-to-date Government guidance on visitation in care homes https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-guidance-to-support-safe-care-home-visits-during-lockdown
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable hosted our Best Practice Roundtable on 26th October 2020 inviting notable CEO care providers and care industry professionals to discuss with us the work we do influencing the sector to adopt safety monitoring in communal areas in all UK care and nursing homes. Thank you to everyone who attended our event and allowing CCFTV to keep the important conversation going. We would like to thank all our attendees and for showing commitment to safer elderly care
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CARE CAMPAIGN FOR THE VULNERABLE COMMENTS ON THE FRONT PAGE DAILY EXPRESS ON THE DEMENTIA CRISIS IN THE CARE OF OUR ELDERYhttps://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1352225/Dementia-latest-drugs-sedatives-coronavirus-latest
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is delighted to receive a invitation to the 'virtual' grand launch of Hallmark's newest care home, Hutton View
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable comments in the Daily Express ... Hope for reunions at care homes https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1347501/coronavirus-care-home-visits-daily-express-campaign
Care Campaign for The Vulnerable is looking forward to welcoming CEO Care Providers and notable care industry leaders to our very special Best Practice - Safety Monitoring in Care Homes Roundtable on Monday 26th October 2020.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was delighted to welcome members of our team today Wednesday 26th August 2020 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beaconsfield at our first network meeting since the start of Coronavirus
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable comments in the Daily Express on empty care beds crisis as families shun care homes https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1323737/Empty-care-beds-crisis-families-shun-homes-relatives-coronavirus
Hear Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Sky News Podcast interview
https://news.sky.com/story/care-home-closures-the-casualties-of-covid-19-12047895
Find Out More About What CCFTV Do
If you would like to find out more about the work we do or have concerns regarding someone's care or just want to tell us about good care practice, please contact us. Click on our Dementia/Care Homes Proposal link on our Home Page to understand how we are seeking to influence providers on the use of safety monitoring in all UK care/nursing homes.
If you are a Care Provider and would like CCFTV to visit your care home to discuss safety in dementia care please get in contact
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is invited to speak at the Dementia, Care and Nursing Home Expo, NEC Birmingham, 16th September 2021 on our challenging year supporting families and carers and our call for the use of safety monitoring in all UK care homes.
https://www.carehomeexpo.co.uk/speakers/jayne-connery/
Latest news
- ''Our care home is installing camera technology in communal areas...''Written on 15/07/2021
- CCFTV has gained the support of Joy Morrissey MP on our call for the use of safety monitoring in care homes Written on 09/07/2021
- Matt Hancock’s resignation - ''he must still remain accountable''Written on 28/06/2021
Latest press & articles
- Government not delivering …Care Home Professional - 23/07/2021
- Carers must be vaccinated under a new law Care Home Professional - 16/06/2021
- Care Leaders voice their concern ...Care Home Professional - 03/03/2021
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Should there be a Covid-19 public inquiry?
CCFTV and Slater and Gordon UK lead the call for a public inquiry on the handling of care homes during the Covid pandemic.
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Report from Marbrook Centre in Cambridge on the benefits to safety monitoring in communal areas for residents and staff.
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Care Campaign Government Proposal
"The evidence from Providers who have installed CCTV seems to me to merit careful attention and to be quite persuasive"
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Just some of the Care Providers who support our CCTV Safety Monitoring in Care Homes
Safe Place Scheme
Chiltern and South Bucks District Council SAFE PLACE SCHEME has called on Care Campaign for the Vulnerable to add our support to the initiative for those who are vulnerable in the community to get help if out and about and feeling scared , lost or confused.
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Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is learning of the pressures faced by conscientious led Care Providers striving to offer a caring and safe environment to both service users and staff. Safety monitoring is proving to be a invaluable care assist tool - bringing a more open and transparent culture into care homes as well as saving valuable resources within the care home sector and the NHS
