How can "care" assistance be so cruel?

[R1Geezer]

.. to vulnerable people, these animals must be a collection of the most sadistic bullies, savages of the highest order. Will they end up in jail? or, more likely some sort of soft option, disgusting creatures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13617196

[R1Geezer]

assistants!

[Chaffinch]

The programme made me cry, with shame mostly to think that one human could do that to another, AND call it a job!!!

[Whickerman]

that programme made me so angry. Damn those heartless brainless thugs.

[chinadog]

The mindless thugs should all be named and shamed. I hope they get a very long sentence. I wish the powers that be would reinstate the birch!

[radiogaga]

i think these thugs will get the book thrown at them.

[boxtops]

I deliberately didn't watch the programme - but whoever employs these "carers" and doesn't monitor their performance and care standards certainly needs to be hauled over the coals. This is but one filmed instance.

[seadogg]

Really frightening thing is that these cases are often just the tip of the iceberg and its always the inarticulate and disabled that get so badly treated.

[welshlibranr]

they are not carers R1, they don't care at all, only work they can get!.........nobody else would employ them!...........oh! don't get me started!.........privatisation of the care system!.........money saving measure!.............now we see the outcome!..........

[RATTER15]

I watched today on iplayer, I work with vulnerable adults. If I as much as hear an unkind word within earshot of a resident in my care, jump on them and they in the office quick as a flash.

I have worked at this home for 4 years, in that time my actions of whistle blowing has lost the jobs of 5 members of the care staff 1 Manager and 2 deputy managers, this is usually for minor offenses compared to that program, never any physical abuse, usually just bad attitude.

If I ever see anybody raise a hand near a resident I would literally throw them out of the building myself!!

Makes me wild!!!

[boxtops]

Nursing homes have always been independent sector though, they are not NHS - and those clients were paying around £3000 per week according to the radio review. Appalling.

[welshlibranr]

RATTER, bless you!........more like you are sorely needed!..............you are a 'carer'............keep up the good work!............

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Seeing the parents of one of the victims on TV this morning was harrowing. They were being shown a clip from the recording and were both in tears.

[RATTER15]

Boxy, I don't think that was classed as a "Nursing home" was it? it looked more residential/assessment.

[welshlibranr]

Yes RATTER, think it was residential!............The care was just dreadful!.............Bless those residents!........So sad for them!..........the trauma they endured was terrible!......

[saxy_jag]

Haven't watched it all because I was out last night, but unusually my husband was full of it when I got home. From what I have seen, yes I agree, they are disgusting, awful thugs.

Twenty years ago I worked as a care/day-care assistant in an NHS home for the same client group. I have to say that whilst I thought the powers-that-be were a little over-protective of the residents at times, I can honestly say that staff were never, for one moment, allowed to treat them like that. Some of our older residents had spent their childhoods in harsh, institutional regimes but I don't think they'd ever suffered anything like those poor folks at Winterbourne View.

[chelle7272]

Winterbourne View - just up the road from me - is a residential hospital, average cost per patient per week £3500 and is tax-payer funded, commissioned to deliver the service by the PCT.

Didn't see the programme but have followed it on the local news today, and has almost brought me to tears. Absolutely horrific, and agree with seadogg that sadly this case is probably just one example of many.

[RATTER15]

The worst part about all that isn't the physical suffering its the mental anguish of not understanding what is going on, how they deserved this, how can they stop this, why is it happening, they don't know how to report it, and often don't understand that their punishment is even wrong, who would believe them if they did report it.


It really is sickening!!!

Some carers, Care For........

Some carers, Care About.........

Those animals only cared for a good laugh!!!!

[saxy_jag]

I can't begin to imagine how some of their parents must feel. They placed their kids there believing they would receive the best possible care. The guilt they must feel - although they're entirely blameless, of course - must be unimaginable.