Home’s mixed report

A HOME for disabled adults has received a mixed report following an inspection by Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors.

The ‘Dewsbury 1’ home, run by charity St Anne’s Community Services, received an overall amber ‘requires improvement’ rating from the government watchdog.

The home on Oxford Street, which during the inspection in October housed five adults, received good ratings for its caring approach to residents, effectiveness and responsiveness.

But it received ‘requires improvement’ ratings for safety and management.

The report said: “We found staff were recruited safely and were employed in sufficient numbers to meet people’s needs.

“We observed that staff had developed meaningful caring relationships with the people they supported.”

But CQC inspectors also expressed concern about risk assessments and how medicines were managed. A WELL-KNOWN Huddersfield company has had to pay thousands of pounds in compensation after using another baker’s trays without permission.

Award-winning Yorkshire pie maker A J Pies and Pastries Limited, which trades as Andrew Jones Pies (AJP), has agreed to stop using baker’s trays and other equipment belonging to Bakers Basco without permission and to pay combined compensation of £7,000.

Bakers Basco has been in litigation with Huddersfield-based AJP for some months. AJP makes meat pies, pastries and sausage rolls and Bakers Basco’s investigations had established that it was using Bakers