Care companies should inform their clients and clients families if they are planning to send males to perform a female’s personal care. However this does not always happen. At the beginning of

“From where I stand on the ground, it feels like the legislation protecting the same sex intimate care of non-verbal, severely disabled girls and women is being overlooked, eroded and undermined - not

A male carer contacted us who worked for a care agency from 2017-2019. He told us people had to agree to having male or female carers under the rules of the care provider,