Should care workers be banned from using mobile phones following 3 yr old being thrown in crocodile pit by man with severe learning difficulties

I think blaming anyone particularly the parents before we know the details is not appropriate.

Please don't be frightened of people with LDs either, my own dd works now for two charities on a weekly basis, with support. She was just existing in the wrong setting (which should have been her home) under the wrong care providers. If she didn't have a family to advocate for her, I think she would have died last year as it was only when she moved to her new residential home they realised she had a serious health condition

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I think blaming anyone particularly the parents before we know the details is not appropriate.

I agree but I also think we are powerless to call out support workers to their employers as they don't seem to care but I think this is a case of people with LDs are often invisible until they aren't

Grandmafrench you don't know anything about his condition or what the carers were supposed to be doing. He might have been a known danger and the carers expected to closely supervise or he might never have done anything remotely concerning and the carers expected to keep an eye on him and let him have some independence.

Really unfair to jump to condemning people when you have no idea of all the ins and outs of the situation.

The whole appalling event is the stuff of nightmares. Not only were the "carers" possibly ignoring what their charge could do to others , but also, in a crocodile enclosure, whst he could do to himself or the animals.

If it can be shown by CCTV or phone records at that time that they were neglecting their charge, then they must be held criminally culpable. They may be paid only minimum wage and the job is probably not respected as it should be or sufficient training given, but on that day caring for him was their job.

I do hope the little boy makes a full recovery. There is obviously so much information to be gathered.

Yes I agree with that too.