A care service has been placed in special measures after inspectors found vulnerable people were ‘at risk of avoidable harm’. The Elms, in Middleton, provides supported living and home care services to people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory impairments.
But a damning report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rates it as ‘inadequate’ - and says it faces being shut down if it does not make significant improvements over the next six months. It comes after a series of inspections which discovered serious failings - including several breaches of care regulations - by the Milton Street-based service.
The watchdog found that people relying on its care ‘were not safe’ and ‘at risk of avoidable harm’. The report adds: “People were not always safeguarded from abuse. We found a number of incidents and concerns that should have been raised with the local authority's safeguarding team and had not been.”
