21 Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care provider offence
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (2015 c 2) | Legislation

21  Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care provider offence

(1)     A care provider commits an offence if—

(a)     an individual who has the care of another individual by virtue of being part of the care provider's arrangements ill-treats or wilfully neglects that individual,

(b)     the care provider's activities are managed or organised in a way which amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the care provider to the individual who is ill-treated or neglected, and

(c)     in the absence of the breach, the ill-treatment or wilful neglect would not have occurred or would have been less likely to occur.

(2)     “Care provider” means—

(a)     a body corporate or unincorporated association which provides or arranges for the provision of—

(i)     health care for an adult or child, other than excluded health care, or

(ii)     social care for an adult, or

(b)     an individual who provides such care

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