Care home abuse caught on camera

BBC Panorama will tonight reveal the appalling treatment of a vulnerable, elderly woman in a care home, after it was captured on a secret camera hidden in the woman’s bedroom by her concerned daughter.

The abuse took place at a home passed as “excellent” by regulator, the Care Quality Commission, and has led to one of the care workers, Jonathan Aquino, being sentenced last week to 18 months imprisonment for assault.

Another four care workers at the home have now been sacked.

Paul Edwards, from the University of Bradford’s Bradford Dementia Group in the School of Health Studies, provides leading expert advice on the programme, entitled: Undercover: Elderly Care.

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Mr Edwards is head of training and practice development and a senior lecturer with the Bradford Dementia Group at the university.

He is a mental health nurse and has spent many years working in the NHS developing care and services for people with dementia.

The programme will be screened on BBC1 at 8.30pm.