A Scottish legal news website is reporting on an interesting case of a prison officer who sued the Scottish government for a breach of duty of care when she was injured during riot training, but lost her case. In September 2010 she attended a one-day “control and restraint” training course, which involved a “simulated prison riot”,
The News and Star is reporting on a case where George Robert Ostle, 22, who now lives with his parents at Gosforth, attacked the worker while he was a resident at the Leonard Cheshire home in Old London Road, Penrith. The trouble began on October 14 last year as a female care worker was giving medication
The Daily Mail is reporting that Security guards are being called in to restrain dementia patients in hospitals up to three times a week. The Mail used Freedom of Information requests to ask all 160 NHS hospital trusts in England how many times security were called to restrain patients in 2012/13 and 2013/14. Of the 42
Staff in one hospital we worked in reported to us that they had variable success in securing assistance from Security Guards when incidents become critical. We ourselves experienced communication difficulties (mainly a language barrier) with Security Guards several times during our visit which may contribute to this apparent lack of cooperation or coordination. Certainly in other
Managing Distressed Behaviours with Older People in Care – Hygiene Tasks Managing Distressed Behaviours, particularly with Residents presenting combative resistance to basic personal hygiene care is an increasingly common scenario in care homes for older people that we visit, in our training team’s experience. Staff should have clear guidance on when and how this scenario is to
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