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
This year Care Campaign for the Vulnerable has offered support to more families and carers 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 care homes to meet residents and understand their concerns about a service. Being a voice for vulnerable people remains at the heart of what we do whether that be families, the residents themselves or both.
As a safety in elderly care organisation, we have taken up numerous invitations to speak at care shows continued to comment on national social care issues and assisted with raising much-needed funds for dementia research. We have sought to also rally support from care leaders and MP’s in the belief that all stakeholders together can bring about the change the care home market needs.
Families and care staff remind us daily that in their view radical changes are required within the care sector. Improving safety, promoting greater transparency in dementia elderly care, financially valuing carers for the excellent skills they have and for the job they do and providing greater protection for whistleblowers are persistent themes that remain unaddressed.
CCFTV understands more than ever the challenges the sector faces but we want to reflect on the positives also. We’ve heard of exceptional care stories both from care workers and families which is truly heartwarming , as at the centre of these positive experiences are the vulnerable elderly people we all serve.
CCFTV will continue to press the care sector for greater transparency. Every week we are with providers that invite us to look at the many benefits safety monitoring is bringing to their care service. The value of such is irrefutable and therefore no legitimate reason exists to not adopt such technologies if the resident care experience is so materially improved.
Going into 2022 CCFTV will continue to listen and advocate as we work towards a safer, transparent and better-protected care system for everyone. We thank those families, carers, care providers and sponsors who work tirelessly to support the work we do at Care Campaign for the Vulnerable.
We expect another very busy year ahead as we will also be following and supporting the very many families likely to be involved in the Public Enquiry around the Governments response to the Covid Crisis in Care Homes. As we all know, the Care Home sector faced unimaginable upheaval as a consequence of Covid, disproportionately bearing a level of trauma not fully recognised by many of the electorates. It is our hope that this enquiry will illuminate the many shortcomings that created rampant infection spread and from the lessons learned to create a new system that values and protects our most vulnerable elderly and their dedicated carers.
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable wishes everyone a peaceful Christmas and a happy and safe New Year
"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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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