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Pal Van-Der Elst   24/09/2013 at 19:37

On top of the above news, it also comes as scant surprise that we also find Calderstones NHS Trust unfurled as a player behind plans to cut carers' wages by as much as £500 per month. This follows a familiar rhetoric of silence from this organization who trade well in attractive letterheads, sound-bites, positive slogans and who go to great pains – and most likely expense - to proclaim how they are ‘Investors in People’ who value their employees. If only the flags, door-crests and waxing lyrical were to make it the truth. For the truth about this trust is that it has punched above its weight to great risk for the best part of two decades now. As a medium-secure unit from the early 1990s, it was not until 2002 that any security fencing or gates were erected around the Whalley site or any company employed to check on them. This, you may feel was slow management, or worse, an attempt to pretend that the facility and services they were offering remained that of long-term care to people with severe learning and physical disabilities which it had performed for years before. The powers-that-were, at that time, reassured the residents of Whalley, when questioned on this, that there were no clients resident on the site at that time that “Posed any danger to the public”. This was quite clearly – and provably - an outright lie, and is indicative and synonymous with this trust and the way it operates. I can only hope that the regime (for it was managed once-over as just that) has changed, but apparently its fey concern for truth and wall of silence has not.