Hunger, neglect, unnecessary sedation: this is reality inside profit-hungry UK care homes | Leandra Ashton
We can’t look away any longer, says Leandra Ashton, co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog
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We can’t look away any longer, says Leandra Ashton, co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog
Providers taking £150m a year in taxpayers’ money for private places that ‘require improvement’, Guardian estimates
Corrie actress in care home arrest row says gran can come home A former Coronation Street actress, whose mother was arrested after they took her grandmother from a care home, has said her gran's going to be allowed to come home. As The Press reported last month, video footage shared on social media by Leandra Ashton showed her 73-year-old mother Ylenia Angelis sitting handcuffed in a police car. She said the footage was shot around 30 minutes after Ms Angelis had wheeled 97-year-old Tina Thornborough out of Northgate House home in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire. Now Leandra says on...
on care home visits. they removed their grandmother from her yorkshire home. my mother is in the back of the car here. she is a nurse, she is a fully qualified nurse, who is wishing to care for her own mother. the police described it as an emotional and difficult situation. they allowed the daughter and granddaughter to go but took the grandmother back to the home, which had legal responsibility for her. nan, i love you, we are going to fight for you. leandra ashton believes without seeing them, her grandma, who has severe dementia, is deteriorating. this situation is notjust affecti...