understanding employment responsibilities
Understanding employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children’s and young peoples settings
Task D presentation or report
Winterbourne view is a highly publicised instance where things can go drastically wrong when all organisations that are responsible for the welfare of vulnerable people do not communicate with each other or follow up reports or concerns.
In October 2010 a charge nurse raised concerns with the hospital and his allegations were passed onto south Gloucestershire council in its capacity as the lead safeguarding agency. It was the relayed to the CQC in December. whistleblowing procedures were not followed and a multi disciplinary safeguarding meeting was not held until February 2011.
In the meantime the nurse approached BBC’s panorama that set up an undercover filming which revealed a pattern of serious abuse, it showed vulnerable people being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and being taunted.
Subsequently winterbourne view was closed down and 11 former employees were given custodial sentences or suspended sentences. CQC admitted that they made mistakes and did not follow up the whistleblowing swiftly.
CQC have since put a lot of actions into place, they now have a specialist team to take whistleblowing calls to ensure each one is tracked and traced until resolved. They also carry out more unannounced inspections of high risk services out of 150 inspections they found that almost half didn’t meet national standards and needed to improve the care they provided.
Learning disability experts and organisations have written to government to say that all that has been done is still not enough and there should be an end to placements in hospital settings and that investments should be made into alternatives in the community.
When programmes like the panorama programme are highlighted it brings it to the attention of everyone which is a good thing, but people start to loose faith in the regulators and can also
Task D presentation or report
Winterbourne view is a highly publicised instance where things can go drastically wrong when all organisations that are responsible for the welfare of vulnerable people do not communicate with each other or follow up reports or concerns.
In October 2010 a charge nurse raised concerns with the hospital and his allegations were passed onto south Gloucestershire council in its capacity as the lead safeguarding agency. It was the relayed to the CQC in December. whistleblowing procedures were not followed and a multi disciplinary safeguarding meeting was not held until February 2011.
In the meantime the nurse approached BBC’s panorama that set up an undercover filming which revealed a pattern of serious abuse, it showed vulnerable people being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and being taunted.
Subsequently winterbourne view was closed down and 11 former employees were given custodial sentences or suspended sentences. CQC admitted that they made mistakes and did not follow up the whistleblowing swiftly.
CQC have since put a lot of actions into place, they now have a specialist team to take whistleblowing calls to ensure each one is tracked and traced until resolved. They also carry out more unannounced inspections of high risk services out of 150 inspections they found that almost half didn’t meet national standards and needed to improve the care they provided.
Learning disability experts and organisations have written to government to say that all that has been done is still not enough and there should be an end to placements in hospital settings and that investments should be made into alternatives in the community.
When programmes like the panorama programme are highlighted it brings it to the attention of everyone which is a good thing, but people start to loose faith in the regulators and can also