The suspension of care home inspections
For an excellent paper by Alison Tarrant and Lydia Hayes concerning the suspension of routine inspections which they argue renders care homes invisible to scrutiny and costs lives – click here.
For an earlier paper looking at the wider human rights impacts of the current regulatory responses to the epidemic see Disability, coronavirus and international human rights – where Oliver Lewis questions whether these violate (among other things) the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture ‘statement of principles’ relating to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the coronavirus disease – click here.
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Photograph of ‘Aberdaron’ by Richard Jones -@lluniaurich
.Posted 20 May 2020