SIR - Reports are quite rightly calling for more inspections to address the disgraceful treatment of adult patients with learning disabilities in Cornwall and many other places. The more they probe, the more they are likely to find. Sadly, with the huge cuts in mental health funding and other health services, these problems are likely to increase.
What could be seen as the Government's plans for dumping elderly people, and particularly those with mental health needs, into the community will only add to the current huge problems facing carers. There are inspection systems in place - the CSCi Commission for Social Care Inspection has the powers to visit without prior warning any private or local government establishment dealing with care of all natures. What it also needs is for the Government to give the full powers, which allows the CSCi to act in a fitting manner to any situation discovered.
Over the past 12 months, visits by local volunteers to residential care homes are successfully encouraging the residents to be involved in having
a say.
BRIAN HUNT,
Member of Evesham & District Pensioners Association & NPC
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