Care staff had plastic surgery ops after attacks

Some social care workers in Ireland have needed plastic surgery, and to have plates and pins inserted into their bodies, as a result of violence in their workplace.

A new report states that there is a culture that accepts workplace violence in the social care profession.

“I’ve come across people who are considering leaving the sector, people who have been injured so badly that they have required either plastic surgery, they’ve required pins and plates in limbs,” said Phil Keogh, one of the authors of the report.