With six now dead in a Skye care home owned by English company HC-One, BBC Scotland still shields the private owners by refusing to mention the Care Inspectorate report from January, reported here nearly a week ago and mentioned by John Beattie two days ago.
In it, the requirement to improve infection control to ensure people are not put at risk, imposed in January had not been met by the time of the outbreak:
https://www.careinspectorate.com/index.php/care-services?detail=CS2011300714
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Birds of a feather flock together
Especially when they fly over the cuckoo nest
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The function of the Care Inspectorate is to assist the care setting to deliver its service at an acceptable standard as measured against national standards.
Strangely when a provider has a requirement of improvement registered against it and a timescale for that improvement to take place, when re-inspected if there has been insufficient progress the timescale is extended!
It appears that this can be repeated until improvement is deemed to have been achieved. It does not mean that the service has reached a highly satisfactory level of performance; it simply means it has reached a functional level of performance.
The CI needs to reframe its raison d’etre to one of policing providers with strong sanctions applied to encourage the highest standards across the service.
It is largely a toothless, bureaucratic entity which needs an overhaul.
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That would make a splendid subject for a resolution for an SNP Branch to put in to conference.
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WikiPolitiks HC-one ltd Off shore tax avoidance. HC one was put up for sale in 2018 check wikipedia then it gets confusing – skip to WikiPolitiks
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The company was put up for sale in May 2018 for £1 billion. Its immediate owner is Libra Intermediate, based in Jersey and the ultimate owner is FC Skyfall LP, based in the Cayman Islands. It has a complex corporate structure, with 50 companies, six of which are registered offshore either in the Cayman Islands or Jersey and a further five in the UK as foreign entities. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were about £130 million in 2017.[8] The company paid out dividends of £42.3 million in 2017 and £6.2 million in 2018.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC-One
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You’d think that Brian “Toodleoo- the – Noo “Taylor residing in Bearsden, would be all over this like a ton of pricks .HC One runs a care home in Milngavie which is a mere cock stride from the Taylor mansion .It’s currently in the spotlight for its high incidence of CV19 . On this, as in so much else , Taylor has toodleood and went the usual way of MSM journalists , looking only for the Scottish Government bad angle .
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Although HC-One has declared a loss in every year except one since its creation in 2011, investors received cash dividends of £42.3m in 2017 and £6.2m in 2018. HC-One has paid no corporation tax in that time, but instead received net tax credits of £6.5m since its reorganisation in 2014.
The group’s auditors are infamous offshore tax-avoidance experts Deloitte. HC-One’s structure “means investors and executives are likely to have received much greater sums as only one subsidiary, FC Skyfall Upper Midco Ltd, files consolidated accounts”.[3]
Court Cavendish, owned by Dr Chai Patel (90%) and his family trust (10%), has received £25m in management fees.
https://www.wikipolitiks.org/wiki/HC-One_Ltd
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