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
CCFTV has for a number of years generally been focussed on the plight of elderly vulnerable people living in Care Homes. That really was a result of the unhappy personal experience our founder had when placing her mother in a local care home. However, we have continued to receive enquiries from fami... More
In 2022, Care Campaign for the Vulnerable has offered support to more families and care staff than ever before. Our attendance at meetings has often resulted in the delivery of positive outcomes for families when original expectations were low in terms of resolution. We have continued to visit c... More
CCFTV has consistently opined that during the pandemic, government elected to vacate hospital beds knowing that older patients discharged to care homes without testing, could possibly infect those already living in that facility. That remains our position regardless of Mr Hancock's protestations ... More
Care Quality Commission https://www.buckinghamshirelive.com/news/buckinghamshire-news/inadequate-bourne-end-care-home-7754372 It is with genuine sadness that CCFTV pens this article, as we really did have high hopes that following the introduction of a new management team some years ago, the regulat... More
CCFTV - Abuse in Care ....no end in sight When is enough actually enough? Ref:- Care Home Professional https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/guest-column-no-end-in-sight-for-abuse-cases-in-care-sector-warns-campaigner/ Edenfield Hospital, Muckamore Abbey Hospital, Reiga... More
CCFTV at the Care Show, NEC Birmingham 12th-13th October 2022 CCFTV Director Jayne Connery is delighted to be attending and speaking at the Care Show at the NEC Birmingham on the 12th and 13th of October 2022. Cameras in Care homes What Relatives Really Want...? On opening day, ... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable comment re Panorama Edenfield Centre Abuse expose. Ref Care Home Professional - https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/nothing-has-been-learned-from-past-care-scandals-as-bbc-panorama-exposes-abuse/ The Panorama Expose this week confirming the cultural of abuse at E... More
The National Care Awareness Survey Returns! In November 2021, the National Care Awareness Survey was launched by the UK Care Week team, with input from hundreds of care professionals across the UK. After an overwhelming response, the findings of this survey were put to the care sector to address th... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable calls for more protection for the elderly targeted by 'scammers' for their life savings CCFTV is appalled by the ever-increasing incidence of cold callers targeting older people for their life savings. Quite understandably when a caller purports to be repr... More
CCFTV Director speaking at this year's Care Show on Safety Monitoring in Care Homes ...Read more
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable has written to Sir Mark Rowley, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police calling for mandatory police training on the complex behaviours in vulnerable elderly living with dementia:- https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/calls-for-mandatory-police-tr... More
CCFTV Director speaks to a 'full house' at the Home Care and Care Development Theatre on the need for greater transparency in dementia care homes Ref https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/uk-care-week-standard-room-only-for-ccftv-talk-on-safety-monitoring/ It was a fantastic start to UK Car... More
As we fast approach the commencement of a public enquiry as to how the Government managed its response to the Covid pandemic, CCFTV is in discussion with a material number of families who suffered greatly as a consequence of what we believe was deliberate failure to safeguard older vulnerable people... More
It has been a very busy last 12 months for our team as we have experienced absolutely no letup in the number of families and vulnerable residents seeking advocacy and representation. For those who follow our social media activity, you will sadly know that on very many occasions over the past year, w... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable is proud and excited to announce our partnership with UK CARE WEEK... Register here :- www.ukcareweek.com ''CCFTV is delighted to be in partnership with UK CARE WEEK. To be part of this event is humbling and we so look forward to working together in support o... More
CCFTV is disappointed that Lateral Flow Tests will not be freely available for families who visit loved ones in Care Homes. Ref https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/families-facing-125-monthly-care-home-covid-test-bill/ Older people and Care Homes, in particular, have suffered greatly as a res... More
When penning our comments, it is difficult not to let our absolute anger and despair creep into the text. Care Campaign for the Vulnerable (CCFTV) has for very many years been raising serious failings with providers. We have been imploring them to consider safety monitoring as an antidote to possibl... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable was recently asked for our thoughts on a forthcoming article regarding private equity in care. SOME BACKGROUND - Some thirty-forty years ago the majority of older people needing long term care were either provided with a service in a geriatric ward in an acute ho... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable believes material benefits will be realised in both operational services and as a result of Dementia Care Village design. Read here:- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/dementia-villages-could-future-alzheimers-care/ From a design perspective, the focus... More
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable submission - Care Homes Public Inquiry Care Campaign for the Vulnerable Origins As the former daughter of a loved one with dementia, our Founder and Director had placed her trust and confidence in a care home that ultimately failed to deliver what she had... More
"The evidence from Providers who have installed CCTV seems to me to merit careful attention and to be quite persuasive"
Just some of the Care Providers who support our CCTV Safety Monitoring in Care Homes
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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