Disability home lacked staff to look after residents’ toilet needs

A resident soiled their bed 11 times in two weeks at a residential home for people with disabilities.

Management said they did not have the resources to have staff at night.

An inspection of the Azalea Services Centre, in Roscommon, also found that because of a lack of resources, residents’ toileting needs were not attended to at night in two of the three houses inspected, as staff were rostered to sleep.