{"id":53577,"date":"2025-10-03T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/53577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:28:08","slug":"alderwood-cransley-care-home-shuts-down-in-kettering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/53577\/","title":{"rendered":"Alderwood Cransley care home shuts down in Kettering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home provided places for up to six autistic people with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time of the inspection, four people lived there, all with transition plans to move. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two residents had already left before the closure, with others supported to new placements in consultation with the local authority and commissioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alderwood Cransley had faced criticism before, with a 2024 report stating: &#8220;People were not safe and were at risk of avoidable harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors visited in late 2024 and early 2025 after previous warning notices were not met. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said: &#8220;People had not been supported to live safely and comfortably at the service, free from abuse and harm.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that although some improvements had been made, the care home &#8220;remained in breach&#8221; of regulations relating to safe care and treatment, safeguarding, and good governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC added staff did not fully understand safeguarding or restrictive practices and people were not always given maximum autonomy and choice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While inspectors observed some kind interactions and recent efforts to improve medicines management, gaps in training, inconsistent care records and delays in meeting health needs were also highlighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The home provided places for up to six autistic people with learning disabilities. At the time of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-53577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}