panorama

[tomhardyismydh]

can I just say those cunts need a good kicking.

so very very sad and sickening.

[keepingupwiththejoneses]

I agree! I can't say anymore as I just too upset! My little boy has Autism.

[GypsyMoth]

only caught last 20 mins showing Simone.....bloody horrific!

[maristella]

i couldn't agree more, repulsive

i have no words :( [anger]

[tomhardyismydh]

keeping I have been a care worker for 20 years and had a sister with Sn who sadly passed long ago, but I just cant imagine your fears.

[smudgethepuppydog]

Shocked and horrified. I wok with children with autism. Not all carers are like those staff, in fact the vast majority aren't.

[maristella]

that is so true smudge there are so many fabulous caring carers out there.

those in panorama are a serious minority, but how many people have their suspicions but turn a blind eye? just awful

[smudgethepuppydog]

I cried, how could the CQC do nothing?

[smudgethepuppydog]

I feel for that poor mother, her dd tried to tell her but her mum told her it couldn't be happening because they weren't allowed to treat her like that. how must that mum feel now.

[tomhardyismydh]

I dont understand how the secret filmer could have carried on witnessing/filming that. that kind of treatment could have put that poor girls life at risk, surely he should have intervened called the police or anything.

[screamingskull]

I only caught the last part about Simone also. I have just sat and bawled my eyes out, those poor children and their parents what an absolute nightmare.

Arseholes (still too nice a word to describe them) should be bloody jailed

[Nojusticejustus]

Omg so so shocked, upset and angry by what I saw !

Can't believe anyone could treat another human being like that, let alone people as vunerable as them.

[eve34]

I am so sickened.
I have worked in care for over 30 years and never seen anything like that in my life.
They should be shot, there is no reason to treat anyone like that. Just can't understand why people think it is ok to let it happen and join in. WTF.

[socialhandgrenade]

Yet another example of how private companies do healthcare so much better than the NHS...can't wait for Cameron's expansion to allow any willing provider to provide services to the even more vulnerable people

[griphook]

Didnt see all the program but what is cqc

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

just heard on the news 4 of them have been arrested, YES!

[devonshiredumpling]

i work with people who have much the same problems as those shown one major difference in our approach is that our service users are in charge of their own lives in their own homes you would not know where our homes were and the majority of ou service users have jobs and the like i am therefore disgusted beyond belief that this bed practice is still going on and want our organisation to go in and help these people

[devonshiredumpling]

grip the cqc stands for the care quality commision and is a body that oversees all care providers in the uk and should make sure that they all basically do their jobs right

[tomhardyismydh]

care quality commission griphook

[exoticfruits]

I have just seen a clip on the news-I'm not sure that I could have watched more-I was appalled.

[beesimo]

Just to let you know the police have just served arrest warrants on 5 of them according to BBC

I hope they were watching themselves on Panomara and I hope when the polis knocked they shit themselves.

[reelingintheyears]

I worked and trained as an RNMH in a large long stay hospital 25 years ago.

It was featured in the silent minority film.

I never ever witnessed anything remotely like the scenes shown in tonights Panorama.

The hospital i trained at was closed 18 years ago in the 'care in the community' programme and the residents were moved out into private care homes,some were run by former domestic staff who had no professional qualifications and just wanted the status of being in charge aswell as the monetary gain.

If some of those 'carers' have been arrested then i applaud the journalist who made the film.

[Kitsilano]

Good news beesimo. It was utterly horrific.

[smudgethepuppydog]

CQC=Care Quality Commission the body that's supposed to oversee adult social care.

[tomhardyismydh]

i have witnessed and reported miss treatment, nothing even comparable to what was seen here, but it has in the past too often been swept under the carpet and covered up in at least 2 out of 3 places I have worked.

All care workers should be registered with cqc, there are plans in the pipeline and lots of safeguarding improvements but I takes these reports to be recorded and investigated unfortunately but as shown on this program it is so very difficult, even this womans mum did not believe what she could be saying as she had confidence in the care her dd was receiving. Unfortunately someone so vulnerable has to have their word against another and with such convincing bullies she stood no chance in hell.

when investigated the wordings on the incident forms should have been investigated on their own merit as they where very unproffessionaly recorded and should have flagged up bad practice at the least.

[OiYouThere]

How could the man filming not say something, keep filming for 5 weeks and even take part???? (dragging girl out of bed) Surely that makes him complicit?

OTOH, well done for the expose and for helping get it out in the open. I couldnt have done it. I would have been in tears and walked out after the first incident,