P-04-523 Protect the Vulnerable and Elderly in Care Homes. Correspondence – Petitioner to the Committee. 13.01.16

Dear Jessica

Please thank the Committee for allowing us to carry over our petition to this point. Justice for Jasmine Group are very grateful to the First Minister for commissioning the Independent Review into Operation Jasmine and the subsequent publication of the Review last year. We are pleased that we have been able to contribute to the Health and Social Care Committee on the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Bill and to the Safeguarding Boards workshops delivered towards the end of last year to ensure lessons are learnt from our own experiences going forward. We sincerely hope that our considerable endeavours over the past two years will now result in better care, improved regulation and more appropriate law in the future in Wales.

We are still very disappointed with the Crown Prosecution Service's refusal to review their decision, despite the recommendations in the Independent Review published by Dr Flynn. But having taken advice there seems to be no further advantage in pressing for a Public Inquiry via our petition and as such kindly ask that it now be withdrawn.

Kind regards

Kelvyn Morris

Secretary

Justice for Jasmine Group.