She seemed perfect, at first. Her CV brimmed with all kinds of qualifications. And she had years of experience caring for vulnerable people. As Sarah Whitaker sat at her kitchen table and looked through the paperwork the care agency had sent her, she knew that Tracy was the one she could trust to look after David, her 89-year-old dad. Retired businessman David Seal suffered a stroke in the summer and needed more and more support at home.
They have to do more checks to know who is going in the house.' I show Sarah the video of Tracy and her astonishing admission. 'She was knowingly complicit and sent an untrained carer - a complete stranger - into the house of a vulnerable elderly man who is very ill. The nerve of the woman!' Sarah did some research and reached out to the care regulator, the Care Quality Commission . But to her surprise, they said they could not help.