Care home residents cash used to buy tablet computers wthout their knowledge - report

The Health Service Executive (HSE) used €9,000 of savings belonging to intellectually disabled people in a scandal-hit care home to buy them tablet computers.

Care home residents cash used to buy tablet computers wthout their knowledge - report

The Health Service Executive (HSE) used €9,000 of savings belonging to intellectually disabled people in a scandal-hit care home to buy them tablet computers.

Managers of Aras Attracta in Swinford, Co Mayo - where physical and psychological abuse was exposed three years ago - did not ask residents, relatives or their representatives about spending the money, watchdogs said.

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