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The long-term effects of the abusive regime at the Longcare homes
- Author:
- PRING John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 7(2), August 2005, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In 1994, a leaked council report revealed that, for more than 10 years, Gordon Rowe, a former social worker, had been beating, raping and ill-treating the adults with learning difficulties who lived in the residential homes run by his company, Longcare. This paper describes the effect of this abuse on three residents.
Why it took so long to expose the abusive regime at Longcare
- Author:
- PRING John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 7(1), June 2005, pp.15-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In 1994, a leaked Buckinghamshire County Council report revealed that, for more than 10 years, former social worker Gordon Rowe had been beating, raping and neglecting the adults with learning difficulties who lived in the residential homes run by his company, Longcare. This paper explains how Rowe's regime was able to continue undetected for so long. The article examines the failings of the individual and organisations that had contact with the residents, including the Longcare staff, Buckinghamshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, the professionals who visited the homes, the homes' neighbours, the Longcare GP, the General Medical Council, the legal system and the local authorities that placed residents at the home.
Silent victims: the continuing failure to protect society's most vulnerable; the Longcare scandal
- Author:
- PRING John
- Publisher:
- Gibson Square
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 238p.
- Place of publication:
- London
For ten years, former social worker Gordon Rowe beat, raped, ill-treated and humiliated the residents of the two residential homes for adults with learning disabilities he owned and managed in south Buckinghamshire. This is the story of why Rowe managed to evade exposure for so long, even though the authorities knew before he opened his first home that he had been investigated for serious sexual offences. The author shows that little has changed 10 years later and a similar scandal could happen again. . Using hitherto unpublished material, the author reaches conclusions which pose vital questions about the way we care for the most vulnerable members of our society.
The frequency and potential consequences of the failure to visit learning-disabled adults in out-of-area placements
- Author:
- PRING John
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(2), April 2004, pp.35-42.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes one of the issues that arose from research into the Longcare abuse scandal: how local authorities place learning-disabled adults in out-of-area settings far from their original homes, and then fail to visit them regularly to check on their welfare. It describes the failings of three local and health authorities in the Longcare case, and then reveals that the problem was not confined to those authorities that placed adults at the Longcare homes. It also suggests that placing vulnerable adults in out-of-area homes puts them at greater risk of abuse. Concludes that, ten years on from the exposure of the Longcare regime, many local authorities are still placing vulnerable adults in out-of-area homes and failing to visit them. It calls for a national audit of out-of-area placements and for measures to be introduced to allow learning-disabled adults to live in placements closer to their families and friends and care managers.