Disrespect and treatment of our elderly & disabled THE ABANDONED MANSION SCHOOL CARE HOME

The fascinating and troubled history of the abandoned care home set for demolition near Petersfield
The house has been a famA former care home with a fascinating history could soon be demolished and replaced by ten homes.

A former care home with a fascinating history could soon be demolished and replaced by ten homes.
Westbury House, on West Meon Road between East Meon and West Meon, has been around for centuries.
In it's time, it has been a family home, a school, a care home, and the location of a data breach

The house currently standing today was built in 1904 after a fire destroyed the original house. Before the blaze, the manor of Westbury was passed through different wealthy and notorious families.
In the mid-1800s, opera singer Adelaide Sartoris and her husband Edward lived in the home.

Twenty years after the fire, in 1924, the home re-opened as a boys’ preparatory school. Despite investing in the school in a bid to deliver a first class education, it would be closed in the 1970s.
In 1982, the home was first opened as a Westbury House Nursing Home.

However, by 2016 the services offered by Westbury House were deemed 'inadequate' by the Care Quality Commission.
In the 2016 report, the CQC wrote that the care home "posed a significant threat to people's health and well being [...] We were not assured that people were receiving safe and effective care from sufficient numbers of suitably trained staff."
The regulator found that residents were not sufficiently cared for and potential abuse had not been reported.

Following the final report in July 2016, the care home was shut down and abandoned.

While the building was left to become derelict and rundown, the site became home to another scandal.

It became clear that files and paperwork had not been cleared from the property which resulted in a huge data breach.

In April 2019, the BBC reported that 'urban explorers' had trespassed through the abandoned home and leafed through thousands of patient files including bank details, medical records and contact information.

In December 2020, more than 18 months later, the broadcaster reported that the files had finally been removed from the property.