Category Archives: Carers First

Carers Centre users claim to be excluded from CQC inspection

Posted on May 27, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: An internal council memo warns staff to be on their best behaviour in Fisher’s Folly while inspectors from the Care Quality Commission are on the premises this week, looking into the borough’s adult social care provision. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading →

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CQC inspectors are being ‘nobbled’ by the council, carers claim

Posted on May 9, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Carers accuse council and their new contractors of trying to distort the findings of a supposedly independent quality inspection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s carers, already reeling from the changes imposed on their services by Mayor Jason … Continue reading →

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Carers First move to axe managers’ jobs from Croydon centre

Posted on May 7, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Jason Perry promised a seamless transition and no job cuts – but now two senior managers at the Croydon Carers’ Support Centre have been told they are to be made redundant. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Carers … Continue reading →

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Protests mount as Perry rejects petitions with 5,000 signatures

Posted on April 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: MP Natasha Irons says that ‘democracy is being undermined by Croydon Council’, as the Conservative-controlled authority is refusing to debate the situation at the carers’ centre on George Street and the on-off-on-again sale of listed building Heathfield … Continue reading →

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Carers file mass complaint to CQC over council’s failures

Posted on March 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Registered carers have written to the independent watchdog to investigate the council’s bungled procurement process, dozens of them volunteering to be interviewed as part of an upcoming inspection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s carers, feeling betrayed by … Continue reading →

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Carers’ Centre staff now face redundancy under new provider

Posted on March 7, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Valued workers based in George Street look set to pay with their jobs so that Mayor Perry can dodge criticism. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Just days after Mayor Jason Perry denied he was performing a U-turn when … Continue reading →

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People’s protests force Perry into U-turn over Carers’ Centre

Posted on February 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor forced to change cost-cutting plans after just a fortnight, following his confrontation on Katharine Street, a choral protest at the Town Hall and more than 2,000 signatures on a petition. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Croydon … Continue reading →

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Perry confronted outside Town Hall over Carers’ Centre closure

Posted on February 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Senior council official tells meeting held in George Street that he and his staff ‘had no knowledge about the closure of the centre or new service provider’. PLUS: Protests planned for Wednesday night against more service cuts … Continue reading →

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