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Premiere Care (Southern) Limited (19 004 281)
Statement Upheld Charging 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Ms X says Mrs Y’s care provider increased her weekly fee by £150 despite her care needs not changing. We have found evidence of fault in how the care provider raised Mrs Y’s care fees and have recommended a remedy for the injustice caused to her and any other affected residents. The care provider agreed to our recommendations.
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Reading Borough Council (19 015 906)
Statement Not upheld Assessment and care plan 31-Mar-2021
Summary: the complainant complained the Council failed to properly assess her mother’s care and support needs, or her finances leading to a lack of suitable care and creating a large debt. The Council said it assessed the care and provision needed. The Council said it correctly assessed the service user’s financial contribution, but this was not paid resulting in the debt now on the account. We find the Council acted without fault in assessing the care needs and financial contributions the complainant’s mother needed to pay.
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Southend-on-Sea City Council (19 019 881)
Statement Not upheld Assessment and care plan 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Mrs X complains that the Council did not properly assess the late Mrs Y’s needs or her mental capacity and did not ensure her needs were met. She also says it did not explain the funding for Mrs Y’s short term care home placement so she believed it would be funded by the NHS. Mrs X says Mrs Y had no money to contribute so the family is left to pay the outstanding charges. We found no fault in the Council’s actions.
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London Borough of Hillingdon (20 002 979)
Statement Upheld Charging 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Mr X complains about how the Council handled Mrs Y’s care costs resulting in him receiving a larger than expected bill. We find the Council was at fault for not specifying how much Mrs X’s care charges would be. The Council has agreed to apologise to Mr X and review its procedures to ensure it tells people the costs they must pay for care.
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Staffordshire County Council (20 004 575)
Statement Upheld Charging 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Mr X, who complains on behalf of his wife, says the Council is at fault in how it assessed the contribution she needs to make towards her care costs. We have found evidence of fault and made recommendations to address this and the injustice caused. The Council agreed to our recommendations and so we ended our investigation of this complaint.
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Palm Court Care (Dawlish) Limited (20 008 195)
Statement Not upheld Residential care 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Ms X was not named as Mr B’s contact when he was in the care home. The care provider notified the late Mr B’s sister, whom he had named as his primary contact, when he died. It was not the fault of the care provider that Ms X did not learn of his death for some months.
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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council (20 008 321)
Statement Not upheld Assessment and care plan 31-Mar-2021
Summary: Mrs X complained about the Council’s financial assessment which found her son, Mr Y, had to pay a contribution to his care and support. She said he could not afford the amount required. We found no fault in the Council’s actions.
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Cambridgeshire County Council (20 011 284)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Other 31-Mar-2021
Summary: We will not investigate Ms B’s complaint about the Council breaching her confidentiality. This is because we could not add to the Council’s response or make a finding of the kind Ms B wants. Complaints about breaches of data are for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and it would be reasonable for Ms B to ask the ICO to consider whether the evidence she has breaches confidentiality.
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Foxley Lodge Care Ltd (19 015 433)
Statement Upheld Residential care 30-Mar-2021
Summary: Mr X complained about the way Foxley Lodge Care Ltd (the Care Provider) gave notice to the late Mrs Y and did not deal adequately with his complaint about this. We found the Care Provider did not follow the correct procedure in giving notice and did not deal with Mr X’s complaint adequately. This caused Mr X significant distress. We have recommended it apologise and take action to prevent similar faults in future.
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Statement Not upheld Assessment and care plan 30-Mar-2021
Summary: Mr and Mrs X complain about Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust’s decisions not to backdate an increase in Mr Y’s personal budget and the direct payment rate paid to Mr X to January 2015. There is no evidence of fault in how the Trust made its decisions not to backdate the personal budget and direct payment rate to January 2015.