The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken urgent legal action to protect the safety and welfare of residents of a care home where there were concerns of neglect and abuse.
Information provided via a press release from the CQC yesterday suggests that following concerns raised on Monday, the Care Quality Commission made an urgent application to Canterbury magistrates’ court on Wednesday of this week to cancel the registration of Sea View Lodge in Herne Bay with immediate effect. The owners are no longer able to offer care services at Sea View Lodge.
Kent County Council has identified alternative placement for the eight people aged between 25 and 80 who were still living at the home.
Roxy Boyce, Regional Director for CQC in the South East, said: “We have acted quickly to protect the safety and welfare of people at Sea View Lodge. All services must meet essential standards of care and we take action where services are failing people.“Closing a care home is not a decision taken lightly. These are places where people live and we have to weigh up the potential impact on residents. In some cases, moving frail and vulnerable people can cause more harm than good.
“However, it became clear that the only way to properly protect residents at Sea View Lodge was to close the home immediately, and move residents to other locations where care is of a better standard.”
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