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United Kingdom - December 21 2012
Plans will be published in the new year for a new law that will make directors and private companies criminally liable for abuses that take place at care and nursing homes that they fund or operate.
United Kingdom - November 30 2012
The Care Services minister (Norman Lamb) has stated his intention to make private companies responsible for the operation of care homes accountable if these care homes are shown to be failing in the standard of care they are providing.
United Kingdom - July 27 2012
On 20 July, Lion Steel Equipment Limited became only the third company in the UK to be convicted of corporate manslaughter and was fined 480,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of 84,000.
United Kingdom - June 26 2012
The future care of thousands of elderly people currently being looked after in their homes is under threat due to what the British Red Cross has termed “dangerous and short-sighted” cuts
