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An Open Letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Every single week Care Campaign for the Vulnerable receive complaints from very anxious family members reporting a revenge eviction taken against their loved one living in a care home. These reports have increased during the Covid pandemic. While we accept the vast majority of providers act responsibly, it seems too many use eviction notices or the threat of them as a tool to suppress complaints or address concerns.

Our organisation is receiving a worrying increase in correspondence from families saying loved ones are threatened with evictions if they complain about care standards and shockingly they receive little or no protection not even receiving a warning. In one case we supported an elderly vulnerable resident who was served as little as seven days notice to vacate. Our vulnerable elderly in care homes need better protection from care providers and especially those who hide behind a smokescreen of “we can longer meet loved ones care needs “ but the reality is just want to move the ''problem “ on.

Care Campaign for the Vulnerable found that some residents were being evicted 28 days after families had raised fears about their treatment. In meetings we attend in support of families we saw providers issuing eviction notices because they did not want to deal with families concerns, which included unexplained injuries, poor quality care and staff shortages. We are calling for all care home residents to have the same protections from evictions granted by legislation to outlaw short-term evictions by private landlords as well as an independent review on each eviction served to a vulnerable elderly person in care homes.

Our elderly in care homes Prime Minister deserve better protection in law from unfair evictions and the Government must put a stop to this 'morally bankrupt' action happening in the care of our most vulnerable elderly.