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A DECISION to award a council contract to a private firm in whose care three vulnerable clients have died in the last four years has been condemned by public sector union Unison.
Lifeways Community Care has been told it has won a contract with Labour-controlled Vale of Glamorgan Council to look after people with disabilities.
Last month a wheelchair-bound teenager in Lifeways’ care scalded to death in Oxford, and in 2004 the firm was criticised after a schizophrenic who had been in its care absconded from a mental hospital in Devon and was found drowned. In 2003 an 11-year-old Devon boy with special needs drowned in a swimming pool hours after his parents handed him over to carers contracted to Lifeways.
Unison also claims that Vale of Glamorgan Council has breached an Assembly Government agreement in the way its care services are being privatised.
Darron Dupre, regional organiser for Unison, said in a statement, “The time has now arrived for the Vale of Glamorgan Council to pull up the handbrake on its entire tender process for supported accommodation. The refusal of the council to consult or involve staff and Unison in this process has already placed them in breach of Welsh Assembly Government agreements on consultation (‘Partnership and Managing Change’) and a file on the process will soon be sent to Health and Social Services Minister Edwina Hart for her view.
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