What happens when one person is alone with someone dangerous: home visits, live-in care, night shifts, hostel work and lone security.
Each entry is built from the record of what happened: the inquest, the prosecution, the regulator’s notice or the employer’s own investigation. Every page says why the person was working alone, what the employer’s system did or did not do, and where the evidence stops.
If a case involved a crime in someone’s home rather than a lone worker at work, it is not on this shelf.
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A support worker stabbed at a hotel used to house asylum seekers
A support worker was stabbed at the Stanwell Hotel in Staines and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. No source records who else was on duty that evening.
A support worker killed by a man who had been her client
The coroner found recruitment, risk grading and boundary support all failed before a support worker was killed by a man she had been paid to help.
Care worker died after running from a gang she had reported twice
A care worker walking home at the end of a 12-hour shift ran from a gang and died days later. She had been attacked in the same streets…
Hospital staff attacked for three years while the alarms failed
Seven staff and one patient were attacked at a twelve-bed mental health hospital. The alarms meant to bring help failed when help was needed.
Strangled with a hoodie cord after the second nurse was sent out
A mental health nurse was strangled unconscious by a patient. The two-staff rule had lapsed, and his care plan sent the other nurse out.
Support worker stabbed by a resident in mental health crisis
Staff spent the day trying to get psychiatric help for a deteriorating resident and were sent back to a GP referral. She walked into the staff hub and…
Locked in on a home visit and raped by the man she supported
A 25-year-old support worker could not get out of a service user's flat. Staff had been raising concerns about him since 1994, and none reached a risk assessment.
Home care worker killed on a 4am visit to a 95-year-old client
She was working alone in a first-floor flat before dawn. The client she had come to support was arrested on suspicion of her murder, and no prosecution followed.
Support worker stabbed by the contractor who ran the supported living home
A meeting about money, in a supported living house, with nobody else present. The man who killed her ran the home, so no client risk assessment would have…
Healthcare assistant killed at the end of a night shift
She was attacked at 07:30 on a mental health ward, in the window where one shift hands over to the next. The trust said the attack was neither…
Night carer killed after asking a resident to turn his television down
A care worker alone on site overnight was killed after asking a resident to turn his television down, and no public source examines the employer's system.
Stabbed in a kitchen she should not have been alone in
A support worker was left alone with a resident whose care plan required two carers and described violence. The resident stabbed her in the neck.
Care worker locked in a medication room on a night shift
The only member of staff on duty was trapped in a small lockable room with a service user, and nobody had recorded that room as a confinement risk.
Support worker held behind a door for nine hours by a patient she was not warned about
A night-shift support worker was attacked, told by her manager to stay in the room until morning, and held the door shut with her body until the handover.
Support worker killed on a lone visit he had already flagged
He rang his client's GP that morning because the man had deteriorated. Two hours later he was dead in the same house, on his own.
Care worker killed in a flat where a sex offender was living
A care agency sent a worker alone to a client's flat. The client had been killed days earlier, and the man still living there had raped before and…
Support worker killed delivering a letter on her last day
A 22-year-old support worker was sent alone to a man's flat with a letter about a damaged payphone. His own nurse had said staff should not visit him…
Youth worker killed in a studio by a stranger who walked in
A man under community mental health supervision was allowed out of his hostel alone, bought a knife and walked into a council-run studio. He had never met the…
Social worker killed after choosing to see a client alone
A social worker reached the hostel before the two managers she was due to meet. She went to give a client bad news on her own, and the…
Live-in carer killed by the man she supported
A live-in carer two weeks into a placement was killed by the man she was supporting. What was known about his mental health never reached the person in…