Disability centre Áras Attracta ‘still failing its residents’

Critical care standards at the Áras Attracta disability centre in Mayo were not being met a month after footage emerged showing residents being fore-fed, kicked and slapped, an inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority found.

The unannounced Hiqa probe took place in January following the broadcast of graphic footage on RTÉ in December showing the ill-treatment of the patients in one of the bungalows in the centre.

Inspectors who visited the Swinford centre in the middle of January found evidence of good practice in some area but also identified significant care breaches.