Leeds City Council has recruited a group of older people as ‘dignity watchdogs', to inspect residential care and nursing homes. The dignity watchdogs will be carrying out an audit of how well people's dignity is promoted and protected by care and nursing staff, and the council feels older people are best suited to do the job. They will interviewing residents and staff to make an assessment of how well people are treated with respect and courtesy, how their rights as an individual are upheld, how their privacy is protected, and how people are able to complain without fear of reprisal.
