Hi - I am going to be a bit vague knowing this is a public board.
My Father lives in a care home - he has full capacity but is registered blind and is wheelchair bound as he has had 2 strokes.
Due to a safeguarding concern last year I installed cctv into his room.
The home were aware of this - it was not covert.
In the past few weeks a number of "abuse" and "neglect" allegations have come to light - and the cctv is being reviewed - it has already provided evidence of my Fathers call buzzer being ignored and him being left to soil himself (regularly) - and also evidence of "abuse" - I am not going to elaborate at this point.
I have provided the home immediately with 2 short clips from the footage to begin a complaint and also begin the safeguarding process that is underway.
At the moment there are 3 safeguarding complaints being looked into by social services with regards to my Father - 2 from myself and a third that has been reported to social services by an outside visitor to the home (this last one we only found out about last week - the home had neglected to tell myself (I visit every day) that an outside body had made a complaint..
I have contacted the CQC with all my concerns.
Unfortunately this is the third time in 6 years of being in care homes that my Father will have needed safe guarding to become involved in his care - twice at this home and once at a previous home where the Police were involved.
To be honest I getting annoyed at the inability of anybody to do anything at all about my Fathers situation.
Can I have your personal thoughts about contacting Press/Media with the footage I have obtained.
I would hate to do anything in the spur of the moment that would damage my Fathers case later on.
Thank You for your time in reading this.............
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Care Home Neglect and Abuse - we have cctv footage - what to do ?
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whiteswan123 · 12/05/2015 16:57
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