Tag Archives: abuse

Care charities ‘would be subject to new corporate abuse law’

January 17, 2013   Carers, charities, disability

A new offence of corporate neglect

Governance | Tania Mason | 17 Jan 2013

Care charities have lined up to support a proposed new law to hold care providers from all sectors – including charities – criminally accountable for neglect and abuse in hospitals and care homes.

Former care services minister Paul Burstow introduced a new Bill in Parliament yesterday that would amend the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to include a new offence of corporate neglect.  It attempts to ensure that abuse of the kind suffered by residents of the notorious Winterbourne View care home can never happen again.

Under the Bill, corporate bodies – whether private sector corporations, public sector entities, or charities – would face unlimited fines, remedial orders and publicity orders.  Such penalties mirror the sanctions introduced in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

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Childhood trauma of the real Horse Whisperer

July 14, 2011   Carers

“It didn’t take much to provoke my dad into a rage – even just a look across the room “

 

Buck Brannaman, the model for the animal healer made famous in Robert Redford’s film The Horse Whisperer, is the subject of a new prize-winning documentary being tipped for Oscar success. Here he talks about how his difficult childhood brought him closer to the animal world.

 
Buck grew up in Idaho and Montana – America’s cowboy country

“It didn’t take much to provoke my dad into a rage – even just a look across the room at him, he might take that as being provoking.

Just a glance at him, he might come across the room and he beats you up like you’re a full-grown man in a bar fight.

I got to where I could hardly look anybody in the eye. I just tried to be invisible. I was like a ghost in the room. And I was that way for a long time.

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