Sandwell Community Caring Trust is a registered charity set up in 1997 based in
Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough ...
. It provides residential and day care for people with physical and learning disabilities. It supports more than 600 people across a range of properties. It was cited by the Cabinet Office as an example or an organisation where, "since the staff have taken over, back-office costs have halved meaning more money is spent where it matters."
Geoff Walker is the Chief Executive Officer. He was shortlisted for Most People-Focused CEO at the HR Excellence Awards 2011. The organisation took second place in the
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Top 100 Companies To Work For survey in 2006.
In 2008 SCCT won a contract to provide NHS and social services in
Torbay
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.
It took over three care homes with 150 staff: Grafton Lodge in
Oldbury, Glebefields in
Tipton
Tipton is an industrial town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It had a population of 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census. It is located northwest of Birmingham and southeas ...
and Greenhaven in
Great Bridge in 2011 when they were threatened with closure after
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, or Sandwell Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government servic ...
said it could not afford to keep them open.
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Invest invested £4.2m into the organisation in 2014 to buy new care home facilities.
It planned to build a 62-bed home off Harvest Road in
Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis ( ) is a town and former municipal borough in Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It forms part of the area immediately west of Birmingham known as the Black Country and encompasses the fou ...
in 2014.
It took over Occombe House in Paignton which is owned by Torbay Council and run by
Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust. It provides for eight residents who require a high level of care and round-the-clock support. It was agreed in January 2015, after a dispute lasting 7 years, that the existing building should be replaced by two new four bedroom bungalows which will be built and run by Sandwell Community Caring Trust.
In 2021 it cared for 150 people across 66 supported-living settings. The
Care Quality Commission
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put it into special measures after they found it made decisions about people's care without involving them and where it had no legal authority to do so – including administering their medicines covertly and using surveillance equipment in breach of the
Mental Capacity Act.
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Sandwell Community Caring Trust
Sandwell
Charities based in the West Midlands (county)
Health in the West Midlands (county)
Social care in England