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One in five residential care homes in England flouts national minimum standards and could face fines of up to £50,000 when a new regulator takes over this year, the industry has been warned.
A report found that as well as thousands of homes failing to meet basic standards, one third were judged to be only adequate or poor by inspectors in the past year, despite a range of government initiatives to improve the quality of care.
The findings come in the most comprehensive report to date from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), which inspects England’s 18,500 care homes and thousands more domiciliary care services. From April it is to become part of the new Care Quality Commission