THE former manager of a care home and her son have been remanded on bail charged with fraud and deception offences.

Anne Watton, 62, of Queen Elizabeth Road, Cirencester, and her 41-year-old son David, of Ashfield, Ashton Keynes, were told by Cheltenham Magistrates to return to court on September 7.

The two arrived at the court for their first appearance on the charges which relate to their running of a care home in The Plies, Fairford, but were not required to face the magistrates.

Instead, their solicitor, Anne Frost, spoke to the clerk of the court and arranged an administrative adjournment until September 7.

Mrs Watton faces four charges of false accounting and two of obtaining goods by deception.

The offences were all alleged to have taken place between January 2002 and March 2003.

Her son faces one charge of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception by supplying a CV which contained false information when he applied for his job in December 1997.

The mother and son were initially charged with the offences when they answered bail at Stroud police station on July 30.

They had been arrested on suspicion of offences relating to their employment at the home for people with learning difficulties or mental health problems earlier this year.

Last September they had been suspended from duty and escorted from the premises and they are no longer employed by Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust, which runs the home.