Mother's Outrage: Traumatic Care Review for Disabled Son

0:00On March 25, a mother in Northern Ireland is speaking out after a disturbing request during a video review of her disabled son's care package. 31-year-old Timothy Jones, who has severe learning difficulties and is nonverbal, had his specialist care manager asked to demonstrate over. Zoom how he bites when distressed. This happened in a three-hour call with liaison care, a firm hired by Bill Fast Health Trust to check on former Muckermore Abbey hospital patients like Timothy. The review aimed to ensure proper community care for complex needs after patients left the hospital, which faced a major abuse inquiry. Liaison care, based in England, handles these checks and only charges if they find savings. But Timothy's team and family say the approach lacked any sensitivity to his traumatic past at Muckermore where he spent 12 years. Don Jones called the session intrusive and re-traumatizing, especially with no awareness of her son's history. His specialist, Sophie Spins, from Positive Futures Charity, said alarm bells rang from

1:02the start, including odd pre-call requests and having mom on for hours. Charity had Agnes Lenny, said her staff were appalled at acting out behaviors remotely. Bill Fast trusts the apologize to the family, calling the experience disappointing, and is working with liaison care to prevent repeats. The firm won't comment on cases, but supports any probe. At Department of Health notes, these reviews are routine, but is asked for more details amid complaints. As the Muckermore inquiry wraps up without a final report yet, families hope for better trauma-aware processes in future care checks.