The chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said the standard of care in residential homes in England is “not good enough”.
Andrea Sutcliffe’s comments come as the CQC announces how it will regulate, inspect and rate care homes in the future.
Over the past two years there has been a series of abuse scandals in care homes across England.
The most recent has been at the Old Deanery in Braintree, Essex, where a BBC Panorama investigation filmed residents being slapped and roughly handled by staff.
In attempts to improve care, the CQC says there will be a new grading system, with care homes being ranked outstanding, good, requiring improvement or inadequate.
Ms Sutcliffe admitted that the level of care in England is “not good enough at the moment.”
She added: “There is too much awful care that is actually happening and calling time on poor care is something that we have got to do.”
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