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
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Dementia and Human Rights - Author Joy Dey
Sunday 28th June 2020Dementia and Human Rights By Joy Dey - A daughter in care "If ever there was a time to consider Dementia and Human Rights it is now. Before the Pandemic, many homes operated on a 'maximum profit/minimum outlay' basis. Too often, profit came before care. "It's a business" repl... More
After watching my own mother die in care I know I don’t want that for my children ... Karin Flower Director/Founder CelebFC
Wednesday 24th June 2020My mum, Peggy Mesure was 82 when she died. She had been living with vascular dementia for almost 10 years. Karin Flower as a child with her mum, Peggy My Mother had been living with various illnesses and vascular dementia for almost 8 years. Her ability to remember, understand, communicate an... More
Pippa Kelly - Award Winning Dementia Campaigner, journalist, blogger and host of Podcast, Well I Know Now...
Tuesday 16th June 2020Pippa Kelly - An award-winning dementia campaigner Pippa's father A few months after I launched my website I was invited to contribute to an NHS Confederation report from the commission on the urgent care of older people – and happily agreed. Convinced I’d written quite enough ab... More
WE SHOULD NEVER ACCEPT THAT IT IS OK FOR THINGS POST CRISIS TO RETURN TO THE STATUS QUO.
Friday 12th June 2020WE SHOULD NEVER ACCEPT THAT IT IS OK FOR THINGS POST CRISIS TO RETURN TO THE STATUS QUO. We as a society have lost sight of elderly people and allowed a broken social care system to remain unaddressed for very many years. So much so, that when a health crisis such as COVID 19 landed... More
Our mother’s failings in care will never leave us - By Annette Dale
Thursday 21st May 2020My mother developed dementia just over three years ago. Some days she would be fine and other days she would be confused and muddled. I always visited her every day and cared for her. After the dementia was diagnosed I went there several times a day, one day I was there eight ... More
Who Cares For Our Carers... ? By A Care Home Worker
Friday 8th May 2020WHO CARES FOR THE CARERS...? How many carers are experiencing negative behaviour from managers over their own health issues and advised to isolate during this pandemic? I have bad asthma and APS and although I did not get a doctors isolation letter my GP did advise i must fully i... More
Visiting in care homes during Covid19. What are your rights?
Monday 27th April 2020Visiting care homes during the coronavirus pandemic: what exactly are your rights? Are you keen to see or at least talk to your older or disabled relative or friend in a care home but have been told by the home’s manager that the coronavirus pandemic has rendered contact with them out of the ... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable - Influencing the sector to adopt safety monitoring in care homes
Friday 17th January 2020CARE CAMPAIGN FOR THE VULNERABLE LEADING THE WAY ON INFLUENCING THE SECTOR TO ADOPT SAFETY MONITORING IN CARE HOMES Probably like most people I had never really thought much about the care sector until my own mothers’ early onset dementia reached a point when professional help... More
Safety Monitoring In Care by Claire Feldcamp
Thursday 16th May 2019Claire and her mother I write this article as an only child and the carer of a family member, and as someone who passionately supports Care Campaign for the Vulnerable to make safety monitoring compulsory in the care home sector. I have been lucky so far, the only time... More
The Road Is Long
Friday 15th February 2019The Road is Long...by Joy Dey A daughter's experience in care It is generally considered that, prior to hauling someone over the coals,one should, first, give the good news! The good news is my Mother who lives with Alzheimers is living in her fourth care home in 6 years and n... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable heading to Westminster
Sunday 26th August 2018CARE CAMPAIGN FOR THE VULNERABLE LEAD THE WAY IN MAKING SAFETY MONITORING MANDATORY IN ALL CARE HOMES FOR VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AND CARE STAFF CCFTV Founder outside NO 10 Downing Street rallying support for safety monitoring in care homes Read here:- https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11... More
Emma’s Story
Tuesday 26th June 2018THE CHC PROCESS IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE According to the National Audit Office, NHS England estimates that around 62% of people who were screened using the checklist went on to have a full assessment in 2015-16 Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) reported that approximately 29% of people... More
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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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Dominic Grieve Westminster Speech 2018 on Care Campaign For The Vulnerable Safety Monitoring In Care Homes
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"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
