Shamed care home put in special measures

A CARE home where pensioners were allowed to wet themselves and bathed just once a month - and a resident was seen crawling on the floor - has been put in special measures.

Care inspectors saw one elderly resident at Byron Lodge urinate at the dinner table, having been denied access to a toilet.

They later saw the same pensioner struggling to leave a bathroom naked and unaccompanied.

The Care Quality Commission experts also heard residents had to book baths a week in advance, so understaffed was the home in Wath, and one resident was able to stockpile months of unused pills in a cupboard.

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