Unit 3: Health, Safety & Security in Health & Social Care
As well as taking care of the physical safety of people in our care, professionals need to protect their emotional security by providing a warm, safe and welcoming environment in which they can achieve their full potential. Below is an advertisement for a residential home for adults with learning disabilities.
Providing services for people with learning disabilities
We support men and women with learning disabilities, complex needs and challenging behaviour as well as those on the autistic spectrum and people with acquired brain injuries or mental health problems.
Services understand disability and challenging behaviour. This can lead to positive outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families.
We support service users to progress along a pathway in a way that manages risk, including an ability to take positive risks while providing a structured programme of therapeutic activity.
We can provide assessment and intervention for people aged over 18 throughout the UK.
In June 2011, this home was the subject of a BBC investigation into serious abuse of highly vulnerable residents. The news report is below:
Police in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at a residential hospital.
Winterbourne View treats people with learning disabilities and autism.
Andrew McDonnell, who works with adults with mental disabilities, labelled some of the examples seen on film "torture".
All four have been released on police bail. The hospital's owners, Castlebeck, have apologised and suspended 13 employees.
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow said government regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), had been asked to conduct an urgent investigation.
Avon and Somerset police confirmed that three men - aged 42, 30 and 25 - and a 24-year-old woman were arrested as part of their ongoing