This lady has dementia. She was assaulted by one of the care home staff. She knows who assaulted her but too scared to say. The home concerned trivialised, and “made light of her injuries”. They said that she was ‘found like this’ in bed and it may have happened when she bumped into a bedside table. The home did not tell the family until the next day. They consulted a GP, no ambulance was called and police investigated. It was handed back to safeguarding team. What do you think will be the outcome?
Please share it and put the fear of God into other would-be abusers. (and if you think this is bad, take a look at our FB page because believe it or not, a lot worse happens).
The family had asked another page to highlight this, which they are doing. We don’t want to mention their name because the organisation is anything but transparent, and do not consider it appropriate to name homes or perpetrators where horrific incidents like this happen – also take the trouble to remove comments that may tarnish, blemish or even identify perpetrators and concealing care homes. Do they consider that other families of care home residents don’t have a right to know when incidents of abuse or neglect (and possible concealment of such) may or have occurred in the same home as they trust to care for their loved ones?
The page concerned has previously used one of our own pictures evidencing horrific abuse in one of their posts and stated that they “are supporting” the abused person, when actually they had refused to support the abused person,
They sent a message to our Linkedin box asking us to remove our post. They said: “We have had messages from colleagues saying you [we] are disrespecting our organisation by saying we do not publicly name care homes”. (For some peculiar reason known only to them, they deleted the message soon after. Did they delete it because it’s the truth?)
At the moment their post is still very much PUBLIC and it still has the ‘SHARE’ option, although they have closed the ‘comments’ (probably because many of them were ‘disrespectful’ to the home that trivialised these injuries.
Fact 1) We will not remove our post.
Fact 2) Our statement’s are not intended to cause offence and are not defamatory – they are factual.
Fact 3) The page concerned does not name abusers, or homes where abuse and neglect occurs, even when a care home management are uncooperative.
Fact 4) Families of other residents at the home concerned have a moral right to know when management of a care home are uncooperative (“The family say they were not told until the afternoon of the next day and her injuries were “played down” by the home).
Fact 5) We are more concerned with actually raising awareness than getting FB page ‘Likes’.
I’m sorry if the page/organisation feel perturbed by our existence but we have a mission, and that mission is to ‘raise awareness’., meaning being transparent and informative. If abuse or neglect occurs, anyone with vulnerable relatives or loved ones in that domain have a right to know. All these care regulators should use the full force of their powers to bring prosecution, but what do they do? talk around the table and make idle (often) threats of financial penalties
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