An immobile nursing-home resident was left unattended on a toilet for hours. Staff heard the resident banging on a radiator to summon help, according to a complaint received by the State health watchdog, the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).

Children could have been left at risk of neglect and physical abuse because of shortcomings in how cases were screened, according to an inspection report by the health watchdog, Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).

Severely disabled residents are being locked up on their own, undernourished and subjected to hitting and biting every day, a shocking official report into a home has found.