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

they weren't meeting his needs if he was able to pick up and throw a small child who was with his family into a crocodile enclosure

I agree

We don't know what they were doing. I think we need to wait for the case to be investigated.

I see carers/support workers on their phone, putting on their make up anything but supporting those they need to but the public response appears to be to ban people with learning disabilities from public

How far we have come

It’s most probably in their contract btw not to be on their phones whilst in work (or asleep on duty or inviting their mates round to their workplace) a whole load of stuff that might happen with vulnerable people in the community

I imagine there will be many lessons to be learnt from the incident, I am not sure we know what they are yet. You can't have support workers out with vulnerable adults without a mobile phone. Obviously they should not be ignoring the people they work with, if this is what happened.

This is worrying too and they should supervise their vulnerable and not play Candy Crush Saga.

It doesn’t surprise me, I too regularly see bored uncaring care workers in cafes with their charges trying to talk to them while they grunt at them and scroll on their phones.

I agree - ban personal mobile phones for care-workers while on duty …