Concerns that Cambridge Aged Care Group is in such financial strife that they’ve run out of basics for residents’ breakfast has prompted an investigation according to Federal Minister for Ageing, Mark Butler (pictured).

Problems with care at the group’s homes in Bendigo, Essendon, Croydon North, Greensborough and Safety Beach was reported in the Sunday Herald Sun.

Questions have been raised about how the group’s director Stephen George Snowden, a former bankrupt, was deemed fit and proper to run nursing homes.

Mr Snowden has said that The Department of Aged Care “conducted numerous inspections of the relevant nursing homes, which have passed such inspections."

Mr Butler remains ‘deeply concerned’ but was unable to comment further while the homes were under investigation.

"Whilst past issues about quality of care have been resolved by the aged care services themselves, close monitoring by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency continues to ensure quality of care is maintained," he added.

Further concerns that another home associated with Cambridge Aged Care Group was not returning bonds to families of the deceased were also being addressed. However Mr Butler confirmed that if the group became insolvent, all residents’ bonds would be guaranteed by the Federal Government.