TV tycoon’s care home blacklisted
A CARE home run by a star of TV’s Secret Millionaire has been blacklisted by a Scots council.
Social work bosses have told staff not to send OAPs to tycoon Tony Banks’s Moyness Care Home after an inspection highlighted “a number of areas of concern”.
It’s believed Dundee City Council took the decision after hearing issues raised at a “feedback session”.
A report by the Care Commission is also thought to be highly critical of the home in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee.
Banks – who hit the headlines last year while appearing in the Channel 4 series – runs Moyness along with 19 other homes as part of his firm Balhousie, based in Forfar, Angus.
Last night a Care Commission spokesman said: “An inspection at Moyness House care home highlighted a number of areas of concern.
“We have outlined a series of improvements that need to be undertaken quickly and are working with the management to ensure this service provides an acceptable level of care.
“We will continue to work to closely monitor this service.”
It’s thought an email putting a “bed block” on the home was sent to social work staff responsible for re-housing vulnerable old people.
A spokesman for the local authority said: “Dundee City Council is in discussion with the home’s owners.”
Moyness houses up to 33 residents, costing the council £550 a week for each OAP – while the private fee is £730 a week.
Astonished
Yesterday Banks’s firm defended their home.
A Balhousie Care Group spokesman said: “We’re hugely disappointed and surprised that the council has made such an unsound decision, especially as we’re working very closely with them and the Care Commission to demonstrate our commitment to the highest standards of care.
Balhousie has a superb and enviable track record, setting benchmarks for the industry for many years. We are astonished at this.”
While filming TV’s Secret Millionaire Banks – worth £50million – had to be pulled out of an estate in Anfield, Liverpool, by producers when targeted by groups of youths.
The ex-Para, who served in the Falklands, also took part in a BBC documentary From War To Peace, last month.
