compensation for neglect, but how much?

elsien

I would suggest that it’s more likely that the local authority commission the service, but it’s contracted out to an agency rather than the local authority employing staff directly. 

born_again

trinidadone said:

A 95 year old woman, who has advance vascular dementia and bowel cancer is bed ridden and lives on his own. He has carers four times a day. On one occassion, the carers failed to go to her home. She had no water, no food and was not perscrubed her medication, from 7:00am to 9:00pm when the alarm was raised. The local authority has accepted responsibility and offered £50.00 compensation. we think this is quite a small amount, especially the suffering and hurt caused. the local authority has asked for suggestions, I wanted to ask your view point?   

My thought on this is why is a bed ridden person not in a care home with constant 24 hour care.


With my mother we were offered 4 carer visits a day, but that is not enough for some one who is confined to bed. What if they need toilet etc outside the visits? 

carly

£50 compensation  will not make a scrap of difference to the person who suffered this predicament, neither sadly would £50000 so the important thing is to make sure measures are taken to prevent it happening again to others.