'My son's carer was asked to demonstrate how he bites people'

A mother has said it was "traumatising" when her disabled son's care manager was asked to demonstrate over a video call how he reacts when distressed, including how he bites people. The request was made during a three-hour call with an independent company which was reviewing the care of Timothy Jones, 31, who has severe learning difficulties. Timothy was a patient at Muckamore Abbey Hospital for 12 years. His mum, Dawn, testified to a recent public inquiry into ill-treatment of patients at the hospital that her son had been abused there. Belfast Trust has apologised to the Jones family and said it was working with the company in question, Liaison Care, "so that this does not happen again". Dawn said the meeting was "intrusive and re-traumatising", and that from the questions clearly the panel had no idea of her son's past experiences at the hospital. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing," said Dawn. "They were asking us to act out how he bites people. "There was no sensitivity, I got quite upset which didn't seem to register with them. It was dreadful". Liaison Care is a private consultancy company based in England and is undertaking reviews of domiciliary care packages in Northe