{"id":355731,"date":"2026-06-25T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/families-of-people-with-learning-disabilities-says-cqc-is-failing-them\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:00:41","slug":"families-of-people-with-learning-disabilities-says-cqc-is-failing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/families-of-people-with-learning-disabilities-says-cqc-is-failing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of people with learning disabilities says CQC is failing them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pYJkZjOxQzI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Families of people with learning disabilities says CQC is failing them\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYJkZjOxQzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Families have told ITV News they believe the Care Quality Commission is denying them justice through a lack of action.<br \/>\nSally Lewis had a learning disability and lived in a care home by Dimensions. In October 2017 her sister Julie Bennett received a phone call to say Sally had died suddenly. An inquest later found she had died from neglect.<\/p>\n<p>It took the CQC a further three years to bring a criminal case against Dimensions for Sally\u2019s death, by which point it was too late. A judge threw the case out because it went beyond the statutory three-year time limit.<\/p>\n<p>The CQC told ITV News they would make increasing inspections their \u201cnumber one priority\u201d and admitted homes are not being inspected enough.<\/p>\n<p>Dimensions told ITV News: &quot;Sally\u2019s death profoundly changed our organisation&#8230; We have focused relentlessly on ensuring these changes are embedded consistently.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families have told ITV News they believe the Care Quality Commission is denying them justice through a lack of action. Sally Lewis had a learning disability and lived in a care home by Dimensions. In October 2017 her sister Julie Bennett received a phone call to say Sally had died suddenly. An inquest later found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-355731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Families of people with learning disabilities says CQC is failing them | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Families of people with learning disabilities says CQC is failing them for free, here on News ISC. 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