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“What’s that got to do with dementia? What’s that got to do with care? What’s the relevance of that to this forum?”, I may hear you ask.
Everyone who has the time, the interest and the patience to read a clear and concise 21 page report will find out soon enough.
There are no frills in this report, no froth or pretty pictures, either.
It deals in part with the ever-present and ever-revealing problem of “closing ranks”: a symptom of evils – or a cause of evils? The reader makes their own mind up, of course, about the dangers of closing ranks in any walk of life.
Speaking up for vulnerable adults: What the whistleblowers say
http://www.pcaw.org.uk/news_attachm...hat the whistleblowers say, PCAWApril2011.pdf
Anyone who has ever had cause to raise their own concerns about the standards of care and support in the UK – and I know that there are many here who have had to walk that particular walk - will realise why they may have felt that the pea had been stolen from their own whistle.
If the so-called professionals working in the care sector can’t break through the barriers of neglect, there’s fat chance the rest of us will be enabled to do so. Not that it will stop those of us who have removed our blinkers from trying!
With the CQC about to abandon random unannounced inspections of care homes leaving the so-called professional care providers to self-regulate, and with the imminent arrival of even more direct-payment funded personal budgets whereby the person in need of care may become an employer of care workers – the message must surely be that nobody should ever be complacent or make assumptions about the standards of care and support they may expect. Nor about the systems of protection for vulnerable adults in place, at present.
“What’s that got to do with dementia? What’s that got to do with care? What’s the relevance of that to this forum?”, I may hear you ask.
Everyone who has the time, the interest and the patience to read a clear and concise 21 page report will find out soon enough.
There are no frills in this report, no froth or pretty pictures, either.
It deals in part with the ever-present and ever-revealing problem of “closing ranks”: a symptom of evils – or a cause of evils? The reader makes their own mind up, of course, about the dangers of closing ranks in any walk of life.
Speaking up for vulnerable adults: What the whistleblowers say
http://www.pcaw.org.uk/news_attachm...hat the whistleblowers say, PCAWApril2011.pdf
Anyone who has ever had cause to raise their own concerns about the standards of care and support in the UK – and I know that there are many here who have had to walk that particular walk - will realise why they may have felt that the pea had been stolen from their own whistle.
If the so-called professionals working in the care sector can’t break through the barriers of neglect, there’s fat chance the rest of us will be enabled to do so. Not that it will stop those of us who have removed our blinkers from trying!
With the CQC about to abandon random unannounced inspections of care homes leaving the so-called professional care providers to self-regulate, and with the imminent arrival of even more direct-payment funded personal budgets whereby the person in need of care may become an employer of care workers – the message must surely be that nobody should ever be complacent or make assumptions about the standards of care and support they may expect. Nor about the systems of protection for vulnerable adults in place, at present.
