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	Domiciliary Care-workers	23 November 2004

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In the frontline of looking after the frail and elderly in their homes

It is increasingly a service contracted out by Social Services.

So how are domiciliary care-workers regulated and trained and what happens when things go wrong?

We hear the story of one 83-year-old woman left in the bath by a careworker who later died after scalding herself.

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