So yet again headlines about care workers in Lancashire abusing their charges.
The hypocrisy of LCC here is unbelievable. They claim that this is all down to lack of supervision by senior staff.
What this Labour run county council does not tell you is that they have consistently reduced the amount of funding they pay for care. They do not even pay enough to fund the legal minimum wage.
National Minimum Wage compliance: ‘sleepover’ shifts and travel time - Bristol Lawyers - QualitySolicitors Burroughs Day Bulletin
What they also don't tell you, is that they send in social worker hit squads called 'remodelling teams', that constantly reduce funding year on year. This causes poor pay and conditions and low morale for good staff. Staff cannot provide proper care because a time and motion computer program says that a particular person with alzheimers can only go out between 2 and 3 on a friday and can only be assisted to the toilet at 3, 6 and 9 o'clock and has to perform within 15 minutes of the carer entering and leaving the building. Good staff leave because they cannot bear to watch the deterioration in the quality of care that they can deliver.
'Remodelling teams', remove the need for supervisory staff, according to the computer program they are excess and not needed....yet this is what LCC use as an argument to absolve themselves of blame in this case?????.
And guess what..there is absolutely no comeback for these people, because as you see from these headlines....it's a lack of supervision and nothing to do with the county council, their untouchable commissioners and their faceless remodellers...
No cuts to frontline services....true...there are joint purchasing commissioners who do little more than attend meetings, the majority of which are pointless, with no outcome, that are usually arranged by them to justify their existence....extra money has been allocated to employ more social workers, to be trained as 'remodellers'...the actual cuts have been given to people who really need this care or the people who provide this care.
The people who
need this care have fought in wars, paid taxes all their lives, raised families. They are mothers, father, sisters, brothers.
THEY HAVE EARNED the right to be cared for by our taxes.
I've met a lot of people working in the care industry, and a lot of them are young. They have big hearts, they really do care.
Now I'm no rocket scientist, but if you create a situation where people who actually take pride in their job and actually care for their charges
GET THAT DISILLUSIONED because they need to do so much training, have to complete so much paperwork, deal with relatives, social workers, CQC, Health and safety, are targeted by every single adverse headline of abuse....all for minimum wage....as opposed to working on a till at Asda for a 50% increase in pay and zero responsibility...is it any wonder you end up with a-holes like those who have been jailed today.
I eagerly await Graham Jones justifying his picture shaking hands with the Labour County Council leader, or an in depth investigation by the Lancashire Telegraph..but I won't hold my breath, because it's so easy to headline 3 pricks and ignore the 1 million others who work very hard every single day to ensure your gran is looked after with dignity!