care in the uk - a disgrace

[Shechemite]

Ten years since winterbourne view was exposed.

Ten years on and

1) the health and social care system (the good arm of the state violence remember) still locks away and tortures people in ‘congregate care settings’ (and we’ve how well that’s worked out over the last year in ‘keeping people safe’)

2) the people subject to this are still bottom of the pile whenever the discussion turns to ‘social justice’ and ‘structural oppression‘.

this was near Bristol and all. There were no riots about it mind.

 

[ash]

As someone who used to regularly go into care homes and supported living settings before Covid I am very concerned about what might have been going on with a whole year of no relatives or professional visitors. It’s a recipe for disaster!

 

[Shechemite]

Flagship death review programme had ‘unclear and limited’ impact

A flagship government programme to improve care for people with learning disabilities has had an 'unclear' and 'limited' impact after six years, an NHS England report has found.

www.hsj.co.uk

Flagship death review programme had ‘unclear and limited’ impact. Review into LeDer programme has found its impact has been limited.

"At a national level, there was consensus that LeDeR’s impact on policy-making was unclear, and probably limited."

"At a local level, the impact of the programme was seen to vary greatly between CCGs and it was suggested that a statutory process would help LeDeR to be more impactful on driving service change."

 

[Shechemite]

Government accused of 'overseeing human rights crisis in care'

As the UK prepares to mark the anniversary today of the first COVID-19 national lockdown, the government has been accused of overseeing a human rights crisis in care.

www.carehomeprofessional.com

 

[Shechemite]

Disabled man who choked to death on burger was 'unlawfully killed'

Tony Wilkinson, 57, who had a genetic condition known as Fragile X syndrome, died after he began choking in a pub at Manchester Airport

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

no need for an inquiry, these were ‘challenging and disturbed’ individuals

Calls for public inquiry into North East mental health trust | ITV News

A charity says it’s aware of 14 people who died between 2016 and 2020 whilst under the care of Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. | ITV News Tyne Tees

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Despite the best efforts of the CEO to blame the patients, the CQC found TEWV to run inadequate wards

Patients 'at risk of harm' at hospitals in Darlington and Teesside

CONCERNS about safety at five psychiatric intensive care units have been raised by a watchdog after it emerged patients were being put at risk of…

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk

 

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Family of vulnerable man who took his own life slam mental health services for 'failures' in his care

The death of a vulnerable 60-year-old man from Chalfont St Peter, who took his own life, could have been avoided if mental health services had…

www.bucksfreepress.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

Not bothering to do a Care plan. The recovery model. Sort it out yourself.

 

[Spanner]

I can’t imagine your circumstances, MadeInBedlam. They sound awful and you have my whole sympathy. I just wanted to share a different view. My wife’s father has been in a care home for a year, suffering from dementia. We have nothing but admiration and thanks for the kind folks looking after him. It’s a private home but they’ve never asked us to pay a penny, so I imagine the NHS pick up the tab.

 

[Shechemite]

Yeah there’s loads of lovely people working in health and social care. I guess that isn’t the point of this thread though.

this isn’t about individuals - good, bad or otherwise (although of course good and bad people exist everywhere) - but about the value aa a society we place on human life, rights and dignity

 

[Spanner]

Yeah, you’re right. And it’s easy to for me see the best of things when the best of things is all I’ve seen.

 

[Shechemite]

Staff (as well as other residents) where I am now are lovely. It’s a block of flats, mostly tenants get on with things ourselves but there’s staff in the block. Everyone’s been doing their best in crappy time’s. A good team

 

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Depressing London care staff least likely to have had Covid vaccines

 

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I wish caring for disabled people was seen as a career, not a stopgap

Is it any wonder why care work isn’t always taken as a valued career path when we still as a society do not see disabled people as equals?

metro.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

Totally avoidable (and brutal) death of a not-really-a-person, person.

Rachel Johnston: Care home must take action 'to prevent future deaths'

Coroner David Reid previously concluded neglect contributed to Rachel Johnston's death in 2018.

www.bbc.com

 

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Child social worker carried out sex act with girl he let drink vodka

Sean Patrick Kershaw was employed by Middlesbrough Council when the incident took place but has since been dismissed

www.gazettelive.co.uk

 

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Care home worker struck off for grabbing resident by throat

Robert Simpson also swore at the Arcadia Gardens resident and branded him a 'disgusting wee man'.

news.stv.tv

 

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Staff in care home failed to prevent children being sexually exploited, Ofsted finds

Inspection into facility run by Cambian Childcare reveals children going missing and scared

www.theguardian.com

 

[mojo pixy]

Read the care plan ffs

Loving and happy Barnsley man, 57, who choked to death on a burger, was unlawfully killed, jury rules

 

[Shechemite]

Yep.

I’m in total agreement on the need for huge investment in - and a (very) different model of - social care, but a lot of really shit things happen because the care being provided is actually quite shit. Getting the funding that’s required and to even begin to address the superstructural problems of social care can’t happen until we’re honest about how badly the most vulnerable are treated

 

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“Cardiff Crown Court heard Banana, of Silvester Street, Vauxhall , used his position as her support worker to take advantage of her – telling her he liked her and that she "looked like an angel".


The two exchanged messages about their relationship and matters came to a head in when Banana approached his victim in the hospital, hugged her, and kissed her on the lips using tongues.”

Mental health worker who kissed and hugged teen patient is sacked

Martin Banana, 49, from Liverpool, admitted engaging in sexual activity with a female with a mental disorder impeding choice

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

unrelentingly shit really

Social care cuts and increased charges causing 'huge distress' to disabled people - Community Care

Social care cuts, including through reductions in care packages and increased charges, are having a significant impact on disabled people, warn charities

www.communitycare.co.uk

 

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'Pathetic' legal system has failed my daughter, says grieving father

A father has described legal support for bereaved parents as “pathetic”, saying he cannot bring a civil case over his disabled daughter’s…

www.romfordrecorder.co.uk

poor Tungay, one of his cash cows is closing

https://www.cawstonpark.co.uk/news-events/hospital-closure-statement-ceo

 

[Shechemite]

vulnerable people are being locked away by the state (at the behest of profit making businesses), and then being stolen from by their own local authority.

The social care system in this country is a disgrace.

Council breached Care Act duty by failing to offer accommodation within man’s budget, finds watchdog - Community Care

A council breached the Care Act when it failed to offer a nursing home within a man’s personal budget, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found

www.communitycare.co.uk

 

[Shechemite]

A lot of talk of compulsory medicine about these days Concerns over staff secretly putting medicine in meals

 

[Shechemite]

Review of children’s social care in England ignores role of poverty, says expert

Prof Eileen Munro says ‘hobbling restrictions’ appear to prevent review from calling for extra funding for services

www.theguardian.com

 

[Shechemite]

Tough guy police this. Smacking up and tazering a teenage girl with learning disabilities for the lols

she left a support group. She then asked for support from the police when she saw them - who kicked the shit out of her

Met police officer dismissed for hitting vulnerable girl ‘more than 30 times’ with baton

Metropolitan PC Benjamin Kemp used CS spray and baton on 17-year-old with learning disabilities

www.theguardian.com

 

[Shechemite]

Deaths of people with learning disabilities deserve proper scrutiny | Letter

Letter: The inquest into Laura Booth’s death, a young woman with learning disabilities who died in hospital, shows urgent reform is needed

www.theguardian.com

more on needless deaths and non-apologies

NHS non-apologies: the cases of Laura Booth and Richard Handley

georgejulian.co.uk » NHS non-apologies: the cases of Laura Booth and Richard Handley

What a week. On Monday Assistant Coroner Abigail Combes delivered a blistering conclusion in Sheffield Coroner’s Court, into the death of Laura Jane Booth. Laura died in October 2016, but there was no inquest into the circumstances of Laura’s death. 18 months later an inquest was opened...

www.georgejulian.co.uk

 

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Some Muckamore abuse updates

Police make 13th arrest in Muckamore hospital abuse probe

A 43-year-old man has become the 13th person to be arrested as part of a major investigation in abuse allegations at Muckamore Abbey Hospital.

www.irishnews.com

£1.5m paid to 61 Muckamore Abbey staff suspended from hospital at centre of probe

More than £1.5million has been paid to 61 currently suspended staff of a scandal-plagued hospital, it has been revealed.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Woman arrested in probe into ill-treatment of patients at Muckamore Abbey hospital is released pending report to PPS

A woman arrested by detectives from the PSNI’s Public Protection Branch investigating the allegations of ill-treatment of patients at Muckamore Abbey hospital has been released.

www.newsletter.co.uk

Muckamore Abbey Hospital: Woman, 58, released after arrest

Police are investigating claims of ill-treatment of patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in County Antrim.

www.bbc.co.uk