As an incendiary file usefully cataloguing over nine years of abuse allegations under three different owners at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home slowly makes its way to Blogger HQ, the spotlight may soon be falling upon the city council’s former Head of Adult Community Care in Bristol, Kathy Morgan, who would have been directly responsible for the home during much of this period.
With impeccable timing, Kathy, of course, has been recently promoted and is now head of social services in Bristol – or Strategic Director, Health and Social Care as the council’s new tedious Bum-Diseased management jargon has to put it.
For many of us the defining moment for this ambitious Counts Louse paper-shuffler came back in March 2005 during the infamous Lockleaze day care centre sit-in when 12 elderly and disabled people locked themselves into the centre for the night in protest at its proposed closure.
As the Friday evening turned to night with no end to the protest in sight, an increasingly irate council decided it was time to get the big guns in to get the protestors out. So the call went out to Adult Care boss Kathy who left a rather nice dinner party to waltz into the centre at 10pm to resolve the situation.
No doubt using all the skills she had carefully honed through years of mindless sycophantic arse-covering at Bill McCitterick’s criminally inept social services department, the great negotiator confidently strode in to directly confront the protestors.
“Right. Why don’t you all go home?” demanded the authoritative one.
“Why don’t you fucking go home Kathy?” came the immediate response from a female protestor in a wheelchair.
Cue applause, cheering and pandemonium from the rest of the protestors as the colour drained from Ms Morgan face before she turned and fled through the door she had entered just ten seconds previously and, er … went home!
Sensational, high end, six-figure sum management skills or wot?
Arguably things actually got worse for Morgan in the months following this when the same group started parading 10ft-high placards through town naming seven council officers, including Kathy, under the slogan: “Bristol social services’ list of uncaring professionals.”
This briefly led to city council legal boss Stephen McNamara blithering on about some kind of legal action against the protestors that never materialised until finally councillors – thoroughly sick of their own officers’ disastrous and damaging handling of this whole affair – had to step in and manage the climb down that rescued Kathy and her highly paid management team from any further abject humiliation at the hands of day care centre users.
I wonder if Kathy learnt anything from all this? This time, with serious abuse allegations involved, the stakes are much higher and potentially career threatening.
So will she be launching that investigation she’s legally required to undertake into Kingsmead Lodge or does she fancy bluffing and fumbling her way through this one on behalf of her healthcare business friends until some councillors show up and have to take action to sort out the mess she’s created (again)?
Watch this space.
There may have been three different owners, but the abusive staff stayed the same. How has something so significant gone unnoticed by Kathy and her cronies and why has she still got a job?
That is a good point John. Why oh why are the counsel louces still sending good people into places that seem to have a history of problems associated to them?
On another matter I see our friend and potential Bristol MP Sam Townend is apparently neglecting his voters in Lambeth – Urban75 is a brixton based website and one concerned voter is annoyed with our Sam: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=8717906
“That is a good point John. Why oh why are the counsel louces still sending good people into places that seem to have a history of problems associated to them?”
What do people expect? This is one of the worst councils in Britain, the way it’s turned our city into an identikit Milton Keynes of traffic schemes, yuppy flats and shopping centres, taken money from the mouths of the poor to pay for it all and ruined our city’s culture while it was at it by trashing all of our free festivals. Their latest wheeze being to pave over all the greenery and sell old people into slavery.
Remember, this is just one institution that we know about. God knows what its’ like, for instance, in their childrens’ homes. I wouldn’t trust those fuckers as far as I could throw ’em.
Apols for the rant… it just makes me see red the way this council routinely abuse their constituents.
“There may have been three different owners, but the abusive staff stayed the same. ”
This suggests that the changes in ownership were purely paper exersises. If none of them made any real changes to the staff team, or working practices, they were probably just helping out BCC with their corporate letterheads.
Over to you, BCC.
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Well my fellow bloggers we see the shit hitting the fan down at the council louces and where are the main players scuttling down the drain pipes like rats leaving the sinking ship and those that are left are trying to rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic with the water lapping at their feet.
Well you may rest assured these people have no where left to hide because I am coming down the drain pipe after them. I guess they have forgotten the policy No Secrets No Hiding Place In Bristol.
In February of this year I along with others went along to the council louse armed with six signed statements from former employes of Kingsmead Lodge exposing a catalougue of abuse bullying and neglect within Kingsmead Lodge now you would think local councillors would have been pleased to see me nope Mr McNamara tried to censor my speech and councillor Townsend kept asking me to stop reading it fortunately the word stop or no is not one I understand. So in february they all new along with the police the Right Hounreable Shit House Dr D Naysmith what did they do about it Nothing and now to day Mimosa Healthcare are exposed this company receives Hundreds Of Thousands of pounds every year from public money to provide good quality residential and nursing care within the city instead it provides nothing but misery to some of the most vulnerable in society. I think the time has come to say enough is enough your not wanted sling your fucking hook and take Kathy Morgan, Stephen McNamara and the rest of the faceless officers that commission these types of providers with you
I worked for Mimosa Healthcare and during my two years with this company I witnesed many incidents of neglect abuse and bullying of staff and reported all incidents what happend to the perpatraitors they are still in the employment of this company. It is time that this company was shut down I would not put my fucking dogs in to the care of these people
HAVE SOME F***KING RESPECT FOR YOUR ELDERS, im 20 years old and would treat people with MORE dignity then these so call carers (witch is an insult to there givin title) regadless of there age, THESE PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK!!!, the elderly loved ones of today fought in the wars in the most horrific conditions to bring the freedom that we have in this country and it is DISGUISTING that they are subjected to this level of abuse withing trusted care homes GRATE EXSAMPLE FOR THE YOUTH OF TODAY!!!
after watchin the show on bbc tonight
i think that you lot are a waste of space i dont see how you sleep at night nowing that you have let outher peoples grandparents under the care of your monsterous employes knowing that there are reacuring problems that you seem to act like you know nothing about despite the amount of reports and the unexplanned marks on the elderly people that lived through or even fought on the front line to make this country what it is and not some capitalistic, digtated one.
so i think that you should be lined up against a wall a shot in your knees then set on fire and dragged from bristol to london.
after hering all of this i wouldnt even put a sewer rat in the care of these parthic excuses for human beings.