Category Archives: care homes

Rosepark tragedy 'could have been avoided with proper fire safety plan'

20 Apr 2011 Fire safety plans were “systematically and seriously defective” at the Lanarkshire residential care home where 14 residents died in a blaze on January 31st, 2004, an inquiry has found. In a written judgement following a 141-day inquiry into the Rosepark tragedy, Sherriff Principal Brian Lockhart said that the deaths could have been…