A mental assessment conducted on staff at three state-run child care facilities found troubling issues, including the inability of more than half of the caregivers to define the term abuse and the use of lashes as the main form of punishment.
This is according to facilitator of the 2014 Staff Mental Status Assessment (SMSA) Ingrid Goodman, of the Personal Achievement To Overcome Individual Struggles (PATOIS) programme, who has accused both Director of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) Ann Greene and Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence of showing