'Culture of neglect' at care home

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says it referred a care home in Nottingham to the local authority after receiving calls from a whistleblower:

Watch: Whistleblower says she tried to stop care home abuse

A former employee of a care home that was closed last year following concerns about standards of care has said her attempts to end the abuse were ignored by her managers.

She told ITV News that she was accused of "neglecting the residents" and "not doing her job properly" after trying to report an assault on an elderly man.

“We kind of participated by standing by. We should have done more. One member of staff wanted to go to police, but was scared of losing their job," she told Channel 5 News.

A whistleblower has claimed she witnessed a member of staff at Autumn Grange care home in Nottingham putting an elderly resident "in a neck choke".

The former employee told Channel 5 News: “A member of staff had an old man of about 86 or 87 in a neck choke because he was refusing to go in his wheelchair."

She claimed she documented the man's bruises and was later disciplined as a result.

Speaking of the residents, she said: “Even though they had dementia, they understood they were in a place they shouldn’t be and they understood the treatment they were getting was wrong."

Watch: Whistleblower says she tried to stop care home abuse

A whistleblower who worked at a care home where 11 former workers were arrested yesterday on suspicion of manslaughter has told ITV News she tried to stop the abuse.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, said there was a "culture of neglect" at the residential home in Nottingham.

ITV News correspondent Rupert Evelyn reports:

Read: Eleven arrested in care home death inquiry

The remaining six people arrested on suspicion of manslaughter as part of an investigation into the death of a former care home resident have been released on bail, Nottinghamshire Police said.

A total of 11 people have been arrested in connection with the death of 86-year-old Ivy Atkin soon after she was moved from Autumn Grange care home in Nottingham.

Three men aged 77, 44, and 37, and three women aged 52, 25, and 29, were bailed pending further enquiries.

Read: Five bailed in care home death inquiry

Five people arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of an elderly woman shortly after she was moved from a care home have been released on bail.

Ivy Atkin, 86, died on November 22 last year shortly after she had been moved following the closure of Autumn Grange care home in Sherwood Rise, Nottingham.

Nottinghamshire Police said two men, aged 56 and 64, and three women, aged 19, 20 and 28, were bailed pending further inquiries.

Six others, three men aged 37, 44 and 77 and three women aged 25, 29 and 52, remain in police custody where they are being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter as part of the inquiry.

Nottingham Council have said that they are undertaking a Serious Case Review involving a range of partner agencies to look into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ivy Atkin, who died shortly after leaving the Autumn Grange care home.

Police have said they are investigating standards of care at a home which closed last year as elven people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the death of an 86-year-old woman.

Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of a woman shortly after she was moved from a care home.

Ivy Atkin died on 22nd November last year, shortly after she moved out of Autumn Grange care home in Sherwood Rise.

Nottinghamshire Police said five men, aged between 37 and 77, and six women, aged between 19 and 52, had been arrested.

The home closed in 2012 when its council contract was suspended.