DISABILITY ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF CONFIDENTIAL RECIPIENT TO TAKE ABUSE CLAIMS REPORTS TODAY OF CARE HOME ABUSES IN MEATH UNDERPIN CALL FOR INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION Inclusion Ireland, Down Syndrome Ireland and Special Needs Parents Association are calling on the Government to immediately appoint a confidential recipient to take complaints in relation to care homes for persons with disabilities across Ireland. The organisations are receiving dozens of calls and contacts from people looking for clarity on where abuse allegations should go. The organisations have also reiterated their call for the establishment of an independent inquiry into Aras Attracta and similar facilities. CEO of Inclusion Ireland Paddy Connolly stated ‘The further revelations today of abusive practice in Redwood in Co Meath will heighten public concern and lead to greater numbers of people seeking to report alleged abuses. There is considerable public confusion on where to take complaints. The Minister for Health and Minister for Justice should move now to appoint a confidential recipient who can receive information and forward to the appropriate authorities’. According to Lorraine Dempsey of the Special Needs Parents Association ‘people have contacted me wanting to forward documents and files of alleged abuses. The Government needs to urgently clarify where such information should go’ Pat Clarke of Down Syndrome Ireland stated ‘listening to the Ombudsman this morning there is clearly confusion and a lack of coherency between them and Hiqa on the issue of investigation and follow up to complaints. A confidential recipient would address this in the interim. These agencies need to speak to each other and issue public guidelines’
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:41:01 +0000
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