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Guinness Care and Support Limited

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First report 25 Aug 2017•Latest report 25 Aug 2017

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Reports, concerns and published responses

Private and voluntary organisations · Multi-service care provider. This page brings together reports naming this recipient and response statements clearly connected to concerns raised in those reports.

Reports
1

Naming this recipient

Published responses
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Concerns addressed
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Stated actions
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Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

Evidence profile

Report topics

Share of this recipient’s reports compared with all other recipients.

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Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Guinness Care and Support Limited linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon

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    Kenneth Arthur Brincombe · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Kenneth Arthur Brincombe, an 81-year-old man with severe mobility and visual impairments, accidentally set fire to himself while smoking on 31 October 2016 and died from his burns. Concerns included carers facilitating smoking without supervision, insufficient training to assess fire hazards, and smoke detectors that would not alert a fire station or enable him to take evasive action.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Guinness Care and Support Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Inability of a person with the relevant disability to take evasive action during a fire

    Wider context from the report

    “(3) Mr Brincombe had received advice and had three smoke detectors fitted, however these would only alert Mr Brincombe to the fire. The smoke detectors would not alert a fire station, and in Mr Brincombe’s level of disability he would be unable to take evasive action. ”
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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Guinness Care and Support Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to recognise that carers were not obliged to facilitate smoking despite the fire risk

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) There was an assumption that because Mr Brincombe wanted to smoke that the carers had no choice but to facilitate this despite putting Mr Brincombe and his neighbours at risk of death by fire. ”
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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Guinness Care and Support Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Lack of carer training to assess household and appliance fire hazards

    Wider context from the report

    “(2) In evidence the carer confirmed that the carers were responsible for maintaining a safe environment, but had no training in how to assess whether the house and the appliances were safe or whether they posed a fire hazard. ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Guinness Care and Support Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure of smoke detectors to alert a fire station

    Wider context from the report

    “(3) Mr Brincombe had received advice and had three smoke detectors fitted, however these would only alert Mr Brincombe to the fire. The smoke detectors would not alert a fire station, and in Mr Brincombe’s level of disability he would be unable to take evasive action. ”
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Published response patterns

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How actions were described at the time

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Types of action described in responses

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Information checked against published PFD reports and official responses · Data reviewed 7 Sep 2026 · About data quality and limitations

Data last updated 7 September 2026