13/10/2026
📢 A MESSAGE FROM MANDY JANE’S
Following recent news reports about serious incidents involving vulnerable people while accessing community activities, we have taken the opportunity to reflect on our own practice.
This is not about pointing blame at anyone or suggesting these incidents could happen at Mandy Jane’s. It is about good safeguarding practice and making sure we are always learning. ❤️
At Mandy Jane’s, we support people to enjoy their lives, access the community and take part in activities and experiences. 🚌🌳🦁
With that comes responsibility.
As a result, we will be reinforcing with our staff the importance of:
🛡️ Safeguarding
⚠️ Dynamic risk assessments
👀 Being aware of our surroundings
👥 Appropriate staffing and supervision
📋 Following individual risk assessments and care plans
🚨 Knowing what to do in an emergency
🎓 Ongoing training and learning
We will also be ensuring our staff are reminded of the importance of thinking ahead, identifying potential risks and knowing how to respond if circumstances suddenly change.
Good care isn’t about stopping people from doing things because there are risks.
It’s about managing those risks properly so people can live full, meaningful and active lives. ❤️
We will always continue to review our practice, listen, learn and make improvements where needed.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. 💙
WHEN THE F**K WILL PEOPLE START QUESTIONING THE STANDARD OF CARE IN THIS COUNTRY?
A young man has just been mauled to death by a tiger in Doncaster. People are actually laughing at him, making Darwin Award jokes, even commenting “He jumped in. F**k him.”
Have we forgotten seven-year-old Nyla Bradshaw?
Autistic, non-verbal, wandered away from a childminder in Doncaster and drowned in a pond.
Or three-year-old Noah Woods?
Lost after getting through a gap in a playground fence in Suffolk, found dead in a pond.
If that wasn't enough, NHS staff then accessed his medical records without authorisation.
Or the three-year-old boy thrown into a crocodile enclosure in June?
The 30-year-old man arrested was reportedly out with carers.
How many more horrific incidents before we start asking serious questions about the care, supervision and safeguarding of vulnerable people?
This country can register, regulate, inspect and fund care services.
Who the f**k is checking whether people are actually being kept safe?
What sort of society finds it easier to ridicule a dead young man than question whether his death could have been prevented?
A family has lost their son in the most horrific circumstances imaginable.
If your first instinct is to laugh, perhaps the real question isn't what was wrong with him, but what the f**k is wrong with you? 🤷♀️