Care home safety and capacity
Care homes failing to protect service users from risks due to inadequate premises maintenance and inappropriate admission practices.
5 items
1 source
3 inquiries
Source spread
Where this theme appears
Care home safety and capacity has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
5 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (5)
COVID-M6.2 — Isolation Facilities for Care Home Residents
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should ensure that pandemic plans for adult social care contain practical steps rapidly to scale up isolation facilities for care home residents in a future pandemic. As a minimum, …
Gov response: No formal government response published. The Northern Ireland Executive had not published a response to the Module 6 report of 20 October 2026 when the Executive Office's publications list was checked on 20 October 2026.
No response yet
P2-60 — Care homes in scope for new regulatory regime
Recommendation: The regulatory measures recommended in Chapter 11 should apply to care homes in England. Regulation should cover both systems and professionals where staff are providing care to deceased people in care homes.
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report, 16 December 2025
Gov response: For the remaining 21 recommendations, these remain under consideration.
Response Unclear
COVID-M6.1 — Pandemic Planning for Adult Social Care
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each establish clear arrangements for pandemic planning in adult social care. Those arrangements should facilitate the production of pandemic plans for adult social care at the government, local …
Gov response: No formal government response published. The Northern Ireland Executive had not published a response to the Module 6 report of 20 October 2026 when the Executive Office's publications list was checked on 20 October 2026.
No response yet
31 — Psycho-geriatric assessment unit in Preston
Recommendation: In so far as a psycho-geriatric assessment unit would bring relief to Whittingham, we consider such a unit should be provided in Preston, not at Whittingham itself.
Unknown
COVID-M5.1 — Pandemic Stockpile Composition and Inspection
Recommendation: The UK government and devolved administrations should ensure, within 12 months of the publication of this Report, that the pandemic stockpiles: retain stock that is better aligned with the range and severity of pandemic risks identified in the National Security …
Gov response: No formal government response published. The Northern Ireland Executive had not published a response to the Module 5 report of 14 July 2026 when the Executive Office's publications list was checked on 25 September 2026.
No response yet