Another care/nursing home closes.

[Workingman]

One of a growing list, this time because of "serious concerns" over its care levels and operation. Its residents will now be dispersed all over Edinburgh, the city where the home operates.

What I would like to know is how closing the facility solves the problem? For sure the residents need protection, but it is not the bricks and mortar or the fabric of the building causing them harm, it is the staff and their mismanagement. Closing the home creates the loss of a useful facility and disrupts the lives of vulnerable people, probably taking them away from family and friends. It tackles the problem from the wrong end.

If residents are being abused, sack the staff and management and use criminal charges against them, then bring in new staff and managers. This would a) send out a powerful message and b) keep an expensive facility in use rather than letting it fall derelict or be converted into office space.

[Kaz]

I agree, it does seem to be from completely the wrong angle

[Aggers]

I agree, it does seem to be from completely the wrong angle

I agree, too.