assignment 203
Unit 201 Outcome 5
Emily Hicks
Understand how issues of public concern may affect the image and delivery of services in the sector.
For this topic I have researched the investigation of the abusive behaviour at Winterbourne View a private hospital for disabled young adults, in South Gloucestershire. I watched a reporter’s perspective (Joe Casey) as he under covered the behavior of six Support Workers/Nurses within the hospital where he filmed footage of the behavior of the staff towards the Service Users’ for 5 weeks. This was published on the BBC’s Panorama show to raise awareness to the public eye. This included the perspective of the families of some of the victims, Professor Tim Mansell and a former senior Nurse at Winterbourne Terry Bryan.
The Guardian news paper, (plus other mainstream news papers) made a large report on this that was made public on the internet too. (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/oct/26/winterbourne-view-care-staff-jailed). There were also two follow up articles related to this on what happened to the staff and how the authorities need to change the provision of care to prevent this happening again.
When I watched the Winterbourne secret filming you were shown clippings of a young man called Simon. This showed evidence of a support worker named Wayne Rogers, slapping and punching Simon. Simon’s family requested to see some of the footage that was secretly filmed. They were horrified and shocked to think that the support worker found it ‘funny’ that this behavior was appropriate. Simons Mother and Father looked deeply upset and angry at the footage they had seen. Simon’s mother explained how he had never been treated like this before at home.
As a career, I felt empathy for Simon’s parents and completely understood their reasons for the way they responded to the footage.
Simon’s mother explained how whatever his actions were in the home whether it was positive or negative behavior, ‘he couldn’t’ win, and would be
Emily Hicks
Understand how issues of public concern may affect the image and delivery of services in the sector.
For this topic I have researched the investigation of the abusive behaviour at Winterbourne View a private hospital for disabled young adults, in South Gloucestershire. I watched a reporter’s perspective (Joe Casey) as he under covered the behavior of six Support Workers/Nurses within the hospital where he filmed footage of the behavior of the staff towards the Service Users’ for 5 weeks. This was published on the BBC’s Panorama show to raise awareness to the public eye. This included the perspective of the families of some of the victims, Professor Tim Mansell and a former senior Nurse at Winterbourne Terry Bryan.
The Guardian news paper, (plus other mainstream news papers) made a large report on this that was made public on the internet too. (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/oct/26/winterbourne-view-care-staff-jailed). There were also two follow up articles related to this on what happened to the staff and how the authorities need to change the provision of care to prevent this happening again.
When I watched the Winterbourne secret filming you were shown clippings of a young man called Simon. This showed evidence of a support worker named Wayne Rogers, slapping and punching Simon. Simon’s family requested to see some of the footage that was secretly filmed. They were horrified and shocked to think that the support worker found it ‘funny’ that this behavior was appropriate. Simons Mother and Father looked deeply upset and angry at the footage they had seen. Simon’s mother explained how he had never been treated like this before at home.
As a career, I felt empathy for Simon’s parents and completely understood their reasons for the way they responded to the footage.
Simon’s mother explained how whatever his actions were in the home whether it was positive or negative behavior, ‘he couldn’t’ win, and would be