Woman secretly filming her Mum being abused in a care home-distressing content

[JackieGoodman]

This was highlighted on Jeremy Vine (Radio 2) this morning. Horrible. A care home owner contributed to the discussion and made comments about how until care isn't recognised as the actual profession it really is and not a "job for anyone" this is always a risk. 100% agree.
Think it needs to go the way of nurseries and regulations in place to mean only qualified staff, means wages need to go up though. Only employing qualified staff won't fully erase the risk but would definitely help.

I agree but I also think there's an element of abusers being attracted to certain jobs so there needs to be a culture shift, training, supervision, and knowing what to look out for.

You mention nurseries but the same sort of people are attracted there. You read reports of babies and children being treated badly, injured and, rarely, worse.

I saw distressing footage on yesterday’s news of a young man with learning difficulties who has been assessed as needing 24hr care. He lives in residential care in Coventry. He is supposed to have 24hr one to one care. The footage showed him alone and unsupervised with the kitchen bin on his lap while he ate from it. Utterly heartbreaking 😡

I saw this. And during the day his 'carers' were sleeping on his sofa or vaping while completely ignoring him 🤬

I have worked within a care home, one being on the larger scale, and another with only 11 residents.
The latter was amazing.

The larger one was horrid. Residents who lacked capacity to some extent were only bathed once weekly. Some care staff only had the basic language skills, and therefor gave just basic care as they did not understand the residents when they were requesting something. The care was awful and as a very caring nurturing individual I left that care home after 6 weeks. I wish the residents could have left too.

This type of work is 24/7, 365. Shifts are badly manned due to lack of qualified staff, and it pays really badly. My 8 hours shift had no breaks. sometimes we were asked to do back to back shifts. I think it will only get worse.

Ed Davey was on This Morning recently with a woman whose mum was abused in a care home.
They had a debate about what could be done to stop this kind of abuse.

But the one thing that wasnt brought up is the one thing no Govenment will ever do including the Lib Dems if they ever got in.

And that is to stop care work being advertised through Job Centres or stop ppl being threatened with UC sanctions if they dont take a care position. Stopping Job Centres doing this will stop someone possibly taking their resentment out on the clients (not saying everyone forced by sanction would do this) just saying its a risk. Why is it ok for elderly people to be collateral damage to get unemployment figures down. They would never take the same risks with children by forcing the claimant to be a child minder or be sanctioned.
I realise this is not what you were talking about but it all ties into the fact that the job is not valued.

Does anyone know the best secret camera to get? I have worries about MIL. She seems happy but some things she comes out with worry me. Especially regarding male staff.