Home Abuse Case Study
This is my report on the abuse that occurred in winter Bourne view care home at Hambrooke, south Gloucestershire in England. It’s about the 11 defendants that admitted 38 charges of either neglect or ill treatment of five people with severe learning difficulties after being filmed secretly by a reporter for the BCCs panorama programme. It was operated by castle beck. The home opened in 2006 and by 2010 it had a turnover of £3.7m as the average weekly fee for a patient was £3.500.
In the panorama it showed one support care worker called Wayne Rogers saying to a resident “do you want me to get a cheese grater and grate your face off? Do you want me to turn you into a giant pepperoni?” this sort of discrimination against the resident is verbal abuse as although Wayne was not hurting her physically he was threatening her and hurting her mentally. This would affect the resident intellectually because they have learning difficulties and do not understand terms as easily, they may …show more content…
This type of discrimination is overt discrimination, meaning that is not hidden and it is obvious and observable. This could affect Simone physically as she is unable to move her body and also the chair pinched her skin on her arm which would lead to a very bad and long lasting, painful bruise. She would become affected intellectually as she would now see a chair as an object that harms and punishes her. Also her emotional side will be affected as she is frequently punished and bullied by Wayne for no particular reason, also she is the only one in the room at the time being hurt and bullied which would upset her lots. Also she would be affected socially as she was unable to socialise effectively being trapped for such a long while in an uncomfortable position. Also when she did speak Wayne responded sarcastically and in a threatening
In the panorama it showed one support care worker called Wayne Rogers saying to a resident “do you want me to get a cheese grater and grate your face off? Do you want me to turn you into a giant pepperoni?” this sort of discrimination against the resident is verbal abuse as although Wayne was not hurting her physically he was threatening her and hurting her mentally. This would affect the resident intellectually because they have learning difficulties and do not understand terms as easily, they may …show more content…
This type of discrimination is overt discrimination, meaning that is not hidden and it is obvious and observable. This could affect Simone physically as she is unable to move her body and also the chair pinched her skin on her arm which would lead to a very bad and long lasting, painful bruise. She would become affected intellectually as she would now see a chair as an object that harms and punishes her. Also her emotional side will be affected as she is frequently punished and bullied by Wayne for no particular reason, also she is the only one in the room at the time being hurt and bullied which would upset her lots. Also she would be affected socially as she was unable to socialise effectively being trapped for such a long while in an uncomfortable position. Also when she did speak Wayne responded sarcastically and in a threatening