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Care users need stronger human rights protections – JCHR report finds Rights for Residents, along with others, have been giving written and oral evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights since they began their enquiries into care settings early in...

A cross-party coalition of MPs is calling for a new legal right to be introduced, to ensure people can maintain contact with their family across health and care settings. Over 60 MPs have signed a joint letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in...

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Our Parliamentary event - 'Guaranteeing the right to maintain contact ' took place on 9th March in Portcullis House. Six people directly impacted by separation and isolation spoke about their experiences and called for a new legal right to a ‘care supporter’ across...

A coalition of organisations is calling for a new legal right to be introduced, to ensure people can maintain contact with their family across health and care settings. A broad spectrum of organisations has joined voices for this ‘never again’ moment, in response to...

We know that over the course of the pandemic many people who live in care homes will have faced exceptionally difficult circumstances, being unable to be with the people they love, and it has often been hard for loved ones unable to visit or spend important time with...

Jenny and Diane - Co Founders of Rights For Residents - have written to the Care Minister Gillian Keegan, inviting her to come to the House of Commons on 9th March to meet MPs and relatives of those living in care that remain subject to harsh and unnecessary visiting...

The Rights for Residents Ambassador – Ruthie Henshall - agreed to take time out of her busy work schedule to give evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday 12 January. We cannot thank her enough for all the support she’s given and...

Rights for Residents, along with a coalition of organisations, have written to local health and care leaders across England to promote the rights of people living in care settings and to highlight the importance of care users being able to access continued support...

Alice Roberts from Rights for Residents has conducted an in depth survey to obtain data on the current scale of the issue of residents being denied ECG and the effectiveness of the CQC in supporting residents who have been refused an ECG.  Read the survey report here:

On 10th November Rights for Residents wrote to the Chief Inspector at the CQC, Kate Terroni, to raise concerns that care providers continue to defy official guidance, that recognises the right of residents to a family life. You can read the letter in full here On the...