Orchard Care was yesterday fined £680,000 by Leeds Crown Court after a resident suffered life changing injuries after falling 30 feet from a window at Lofthouse Grange and Lodge in West Yorkshire.
Care sector pays a fifth of LA health and safety fines
The care sector paid for more than a fifth (21%) of health and safety fines in cases prosecuted by local authorities, according to new research.
York care home owner fined £160,000 over pensioner death
The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust has been fined £163,185 by Leeds Magistrates’ Court following the death of a 98-year-old man.
RadcliffesLeBrasseur: Why care fines are on the rise
As a series of prosecutions have indicated £1 million plus fines could become the norm for care home providers
