Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
It makes my blood boil, if this has been highlighted how many more old peoples homes, and facilities of this kind is there were this is allowed to happen because no one wants to lose their jobs if they speak out.Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
The great problem is that all care homes are tarred with the same brush in the eyes of the public. The people who carry out these awful acts of bullying are rare withinn the care industry and are a symptom of poor management, but where the perpetrators are found they need prosecuting and punishing with the full force of the law to deter others.....Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
I watched the whole programme, those employees (I cannot call them carers) were sadistic swines. I got the impression that they got up in the morning looking forward to inflicting as much torture they thought they could get away with. They did get away with it for god knows how long! If this is a snapshot of one employee's (the investigator's) filming during just his shift over five weeks I am certain that worse happened that we will never know about. Simon and Simone will be in my mind for a very long time.Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
It was a truly horrific programme that I found at first hard to believe was being perpetrated in our country.Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
Re: Panorama - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed
If the Government of the day hadn't been so hellbent on turning long-term care of the elderly (and other vulnerable groups) over to the private sector, I think care standards would have been a great deal safer and higher than they are today. I think I may have said it before, but there is nothing that the private sector can do better than the public sector. We now have the sorry state where folks who saw an opportunity and got rich from jumping onto the elderly care and nursing home gravytrain at a time when grants and funds were scattered around like confetti, are now abandoning ship having made their fortunes. Many properties they received Government grants to develop have been sold off for profit and they are renting them (as revealed recently with one large provider of care) and the folks who have paid through the nose for their care - with contributions from taxpayers - are finding themselves vulnerable and unsecure. There will be other providers who will soon follow I am sure. All in all, I believe there is an avalanche of nursing home providers about to do the same and as per usual the taxpayer will be the one to count the cost, either by propping them up or moving the homes back into public sector care. (I sincerely hope the latter is what will happen). Sorry for the rant folks - rant over
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