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Did anyone watch it this evening??

Horrendous!!!.... and on the news just now 4 members of staff are going or gone to prison....YES, and so they should.

jude

I watched it and I am so angry that people think they can treat other people in that way. I have a daughter with learning difficulties and physical disabilitys It is frightening to even think about her living somewhere like that . Hopefully she will always be cared for in our own home. She is 23 and lovely.

Aw Sylvia is'nt it frightening. l used to work in a residential home and l've also been a classroom assistant for adults with learning and physical disabilities. l loved them all. NO ONE deserves to be treated the way those staff treated those poor people.
l hope the staff get a long sentence!!

l'm off to bed now but will look in again in the morning, if l can't sleep l'll be here in the night!!

nite nite

jude x

Hi Jude its disgusting. I used to work in a care home and loved the people there. They need caring people to take care of them, and they deserve to have a good life with interesting things to do not just sit about being abused. I cant stop thinking about it.
Hope you sleep well.
xx

This really upset me .

Bullies and thugs .Hope they get what they deserve .

CCTV should be installed into the day rooms and public places and viewed regularly by independant sources .

Find it hard to believe that the CE of the company was surprised that there was a problem after the huge restraining going on that was reported .

Kathy

Unfortunately I didn't - and should have!!
I work with wonderful people who go in and make sure homes are homes - and provide proper care, comfort - and stimulation.
If needs be the staff are taught how to do this!

Absolutelly awful. The abuse was systematic abuse carried out by uncaring sadists. Better pay might bring in better quality carers but there are many other kind carers on just above minimum wage and in this case there was a Nurse Manager who just looked on.

The Care Quality Commission was ineffective.. If your judgement is so poor that you missed abuse after x 3 complaints then the systems they have in place are not working. Its not enough just to turn up and interview staff and patients.

Why do we pay these companies thousands a week when in some cases that money could be put into the home/s of their family to enable them to continue to care for their relatives.

Vera

I recorded it as o.h. watching bgt etc but couldn't bring myself to watch it last night, after he was in bed. I will watch it tho but wasn't up to the emotions it would bring, I do feel for all those in care or hospital who aren't treated well and with a caring manner. It scares me that I might end up one day being badly treated in a hospital or care home and hope my son or someone would look out for me if I was to be in a place like that.

I would be very wary if I had a loved one in somewhere and I couldn't be sure they were being treated well. It's what everyone deserves to have, loving kindness at all times, however tired or underpaid the carer.

Lizx

Morning all..

Ive just watched this on BBC news.....

I am disgusted this goes on ,,but not shocked .. ive had tears running down my cheeks this morning..

Hope they all get what they deserve.. i agree with Vera.. give families more help

jgee..

I watched it last night and was disgusted and upset by what went on.

Vera, I absolutely agree with everthing you said.

I just hope that these people will get get what they deserve, and never allowed to work with such vulnerable people ever again.

Just seen on the news that 4 people have been arrested.

Sallie.x

l did sleep well fortunately but did'nt 2 nights previously, but l woke this morning thinking about it. Last night l just kept staring at the tv in disbelief and the abuse got worse. Poor girl who was kept pinned down by a chair!!!!
l'm pleased it was shown on TV, it needs to be sorted and hopefully more relatives and friend will feel more able to complain if they think simular is going on in home's where they have relatives/friends.

Yes bring in the CCTV camera's, but then alot of homes would say they can't afford them!

Lets hope too that they get their just deserts!!
The one with the tattoo's wants to be a tattooist....god help anyone that flinches with pain!!

jude

If they go to prison"Instead of a slap on the wrist or comunity service" It would be retrebution if the other inmates of that prison were told why they were there.**M**.

Jude, Rita and Merlin, I fully agree with everything that you've all said.

I was going to switch it off because like you all, it made me feel so sick and angry, but felt that I must watch to the end, thinking how terrible it was for these poor people that had to go through all that abuse and for their families to watch it.

As you've all said, they all need a taste of their own medicine, only ten times worse.


Sallie.x

Didn't watch it but read the report in the paper by the person who went undercover. Those poor young people, and how guilty one set of parents must feel as they didn't believe their daughter because they thought it couldn't happen. I am so pleased they are to be punished, thugs. Strangely I am reading a book at the moment (fiction Rosie by Lesley Pearse) Part of it is set inwhat was then called a mental hospital back in the 50s. The treatment of the patients then was similar to that in the report. And we think we have progressed!!

They have been released on bail, I think its disgusting what they did, cant believe such things are allowed to happen. The ought to be sacked, thrown in prison and have done such things to them.

I watched it last night and i was
in tears at what they were doing to
those poor people who cant defend them selves .
i hope that they get a stiff sentence although i doubt they will .
Hazelx

I had tears flowing, it was vile ... disgusting ... sadists planning how to bully, torture and more. My heart goes out to those treated so badly by those who were meant to be there for them, their 'Carers'.

There are many wonderful Carers out there, sadly I'm not surprised ... my brother was subjected to ... well, that's another story for another time.

Where was their training? Where were their CRB checks? How did they get the jobs? Where were CCTV cameras ... my word, the list is endless and I should also like to know why the Senior male nurse who reported THREE times with the title ABUSE was not listened to.

How can one human being treat another so badly ... I try not to judge yet I would like to see them all imprisoned.

xxx Shimms xxx

Its just been ont he news again...did'nt realise the home is in Bristol!!

13 people have been suspended, l hope the management are part of that 13??

jude

DISGUSTING, UPSETTING, DIABOLICAL, INHUMANE, just what I can say here, but would like to use much stronger language.

These so called "carers" should be treated in the same way or worse, and I know 2 wrongs don't make a right, but having been brought up with a mentally ill relative, I found this unbelieve in the 21st century.

The government are spending so much money bailing out other countries, instead of facing the problems in their own country. Between this, and the massive cutbacks, how many more cases like this does it take to make the "big wigs" realise where the money should be going? Two patients from a "nursing home" in Edinburgh have died in suspicious circumstances, but thankfully it has now closed down.

Sorry, but this kind of thing really gets my back up.

Well thanks to the cuts, a new hospital in Peterborough built with pfi like our local N and N Hospital, will have to cut jobs to make ends meet. As some people said, it should be the managers that go not the nurses etc. That's where the axe usually falls tho and then the workload gets worse and people get stressed, and mistakes are made, or uncaring treatment happens.
Is anyone watching the A & E prog on Channel 4? The things the staff have to put up with, drunks being abusive etc etc - don't know how they put up with it.

Lizx