Posted on 10/14/2012 4:47:45 PM PDT by Stoat
Private care agencies, fulfilling contracts for councils across the country, have been employing convicted criminals to work in elderly people’s homes.
In some cases, the criminals have been sent in without police checks or risk assessments being carried out, publicly available records show.
One agency in Birmingham hired 23 people with criminal records, including assault and theft.
Another in Sussex had five criminals on its books including a woman who was allegedly deported from a foreign country for serious offences, according to inspectors.
Although the agencies are required to carry out Criminal Records Bureau checks on staff, there is no law preventing them employing someone with convictions. They must only carry out risk assessments and show they have been properly monitored.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
There's considerably more in this article that I had to edit out, and so I'm hoping that interested readers will take the time to read the entire story.
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Our liberals have been know to put criminals in elderly housing for the poor.
How disrespectful and careless can they be to do this to people of any age?
Leftists have a tendency to assume that just because someone has “paid his debt to society” that he/she is completely transformed as an individual and is now as pure as the wind-driven snow at their core.
While it is a central tenet of Christianity to forgive and allow someone to redeem themselves, I would personally prefer that people with a history of convictions for violent behavior be allowed to redeem themselves working at a car wash or a cement factory rather than looking after my Grandmother.
At the very least the government would give the jobs to incompetents from their favored groups who couldn’t find or hold a job on their own.
At the very least the government would give the jobs to incompetents from their favored groups who couldn’t find or hold a job on their own.
This is what class action law suits were designed for...
Britains National Health Care also has imported thousands of Muslim doctors. Unfortunately, a group of them tried to blow up an airport a few years ago.
We have brought in quite a few foreign doctors, too. Some of them have been in the news for malpractice and spreading disease by re-using and not sterilizing equipment. Third world health care here we come!
Agreed. I'm far from being an expert on the laws of Great Britain...are class action suits of this type allowed there, and against Government agencies?
I remember that....absolutely hideous.
And I understand that hygeine concerns have been common as well with muslim healthcare workers actively opposing any requirement that they wear something other than their long muslim garb, and of their inability / unwillingness to thoroughly wash their hands and arms before and after procedures.
Madness.
Laws were made - laws can be changed...
A bunch of Losertarian types on this forum feel the same way - that convicts should automatically get their RKBA back, just because they have completed their sentence.
I like the idea of convicts having a job waiting for them right out of prison, but it needs to be somewhere where people are not vulnerable. Once they prove themselves, then they can have a position of trust...
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