Tuesday 31st May - Panorama.

[Champ]

You have an appalling youth justice system

[Champ]

Three men have been arrested following a BBC Panorama investigation into abuse at a young offenders centre in Kent.

Police said they were being held on suspicion of child neglect.

The BBC understands the three men were among four team leaders at the Medway Secure Training Centre, in Rochester, who were sacked on Tuesday.

A further three men at the unit, run by security firm G4S - two duty operations managers and a training centre assistant - remain suspended.

A female duty operations manager has been placed on restricted duties, while a male healthcare worker employed by Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) has also been suspended.

A trust spokesman said: "One CNWL staff member contacted us before the programme to say that they had been present at one incident in the film; the footage broadcast confirmed this.

"Whilst we are pleased he came forward, he has been suspended whilst that incident is fully investigated."

The allegations relate to 10 boys aged 14 to 17.

 

Thats something, I suppose, but the whole system of incarcerating children, because that is what they are, in conditions like those portrayed is utterly Dickensian. Where was the 'training'? Where was the activity? Where was the care?

[rubble-rouser]

Three men have been arrested following a BBC Panorama investigation into abuse at a young offenders centre in Kent.

Police said they were being held on suspicion of child neglect.

The BBC understands the three men were among four team leaders at the Medway Secure Training Centre, in Rochester, who were sacked on Tuesday.

A further three men at the unit, run by security firm G4S - two duty operations managers and a training centre assistant - remain suspended.

A female duty operations manager has been placed on restricted duties, while a male healthcare worker employed by Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) has also been suspended.

A trust spokesman said: "One CNWL staff member contacted us before the programme to say that they had been present at one incident in the film; the footage broadcast confirmed this.

"Whilst we are pleased he came forward, he has been suspended whilst that incident is fully investigated."

The allegations relate to 10 boys aged 14 to 17.

 

Thats something, I suppose, but the whole system of incarcerating children, because that is what they are, in conditions like those portrayed is utterly Dickensian. Where was the 'training'? Where was the activity? Where was the care?

 

More pertinently, where is the political capital in providing any of the above?

[lifetime fan]

It wasn't a training centre in any such way, it was a HMP YOI in everything bar name.

[Champ]

More pertinently, where is the political capital in providing any of the above?

Its what we have and have had since 1968

[rubble-rouser]

Its what we have and have had since 1968

 

I'm afraid that it's all about looking tough down here with a hard right government and fascist press

[Champ]

I'm afraid that it's all about looking tough down here with a hard right government and fascist press

And ever has been, it would seem. Out of sight out of mind.

Now, I'm not saying our system isn't without its faults but at least the principles behind it are good ones

[SammyAftershave]

 

They look so much like each other they could be Brother and Sister. Are they from Norfolk?

[lifetime fan]

I don't know how much you can share but I'd like to know more about where their leads come from and how many such stories come their way

 

 

Interesting watch here.

 

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/watch-so-you-want-to-be-an-investigative-reporter-/s2/a603814/

[lifetime fan]

Nursing Homes Undercover Panorama

 

Panorama goes undercover in two nursing homes and finds evidence of cruelty and neglect. Reporter Janice Finch booked into the homes as a resident and witnessed staff rushed off their feet, leaving the privacy and dignity of some fellow residents often ignored. The company, which has a chain of homes in Cornwall, earns millions from NHS and local authority placements and has already been told to make improvements. An emergency safeguarding plan is now in place after the programme makers raised their concerns with the Care Quality Commission and other agencies.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0844wq3

[dennis tooth]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-privatisation-charges-professionals-in-house-agency-a7426966.html

[lifetime fan]

Nursing Homes Undercover Panorama

 

Panorama goes undercover in two nursing homes and finds evidence of cruelty and neglect. Reporter Janice Finch booked into the homes as a resident and witnessed staff rushed off their feet, leaving the privacy and dignity of some fellow residents often ignored. The company, which has a chain of homes in Cornwall, earns millions from NHS and local authority placements and has already been told to make improvements. An emergency safeguarding plan is now in place after the programme makers raised their concerns with the Care Quality Commission and other agencies.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0844wq3

On BBC tomorrow night 8:30.

[lifetime fan]

Watched some clips of it this morning.

 

I'm not sure if I'm becoming densensitised to this now but as horrific as it was it didn't seem so shocking this time.

 

I guess it's got to the point I kind of expect it now.

 

 

"Makes me sick mother fucker, how far we done fell".

[lifetime fan]

Just for those that aren't aware...

 

It was Cornwall (as a local authority) that was banned from placing adults with a variety of mental health, learning and physical disabilities within the county for years because of the institutional, physical, financial and sexual abuse they routinely faced.

 

We've come so far haven't we...

[lifetime fan]

5 fucking years you lying cunts.

[lifetime fan]

CQC talking fucking bollocks yet again!

[lifetime fan]

5 fucking years you lying cunts.

 

5 fucking years!!!

 

You've willfully, in fact, been complicant, in the abuse of the most vulnerable in society. 

[lifetime fan]

I just don't give a fuck anymore, as has been shown I could get a job in health and social care without the CQC knowing a fucking jot.

 

The CQC are a bunch of self serving, politicised, ill informed, wall of patys'.

 

They're simply a layer of defence for the government.

[lifetime fan]

Norman Lamb

 

You are a fucking liar!

 

You deliberately mislead, lied, and bullshitted you lying prick.

[lifetime fan]

You're right mate.

 

A decade after Donal Macintyre exposed abuse in care settings, after the Cornwall inquiry and this is still going on in this day and age.

 

I don't mind admitting I cried watching that last night.

 

5 fucking years ago I was complaining about Cornwall being shite.

[lifetime fan]

Watched the last two episodes?

 

There's a far worse investigation ongoing as well.

[Section_31]

Horrifies me this shit, I do genuinely hope I die before I'm in a position where I have to be cared for. 

[lifetime fan]

Thought the prison episode would have a bigger impact than it

 

Hopefully when this next investigation gets to be shown the fucking lemmings in this country might start to wake up.

[lifetime fan]

Cheerio Jim you despicable, lying prick.

 

 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/former-managers-winterbourne-view-hospital-248320

[lifetime fan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42057495