CQC: Half of care homes 'failing vulnerable patients' "We found that there is poor staff understanding of restraint, a lack of monitoring of the usage of restraint leading to increased risk of restraint being used inappropriately," the report concluded. The standards were so bad at 27 locations, or almost one in five, that they have been referred to local councils for an inquiry to be held, the Daily Mail reported. At privately run care institutions, a third were compliant with the two standards. A resident at one institution told inspectors: "I was just dumped here, and I am not near my family and in a locked place." The inspections found that "overall levels of compliance were low" for the quality of care standard and the safeguarding from abuse standard. Care for those with learning disabilities is shared between NHS hospitals, councils' adult social services departments and institutions operated by private companies. They cover secure institutions, rehabilitation centres, residential homes and "assessment and treatment" centres. "People are admitted to these services because they need help and support," Dame Jo Williams, the CQC chairman, told the newspaper. They and their families need to be assured that they will be treated with care and respect. Winterbourne View was closed in June last year after an undercover reporter for Panorama filmed evidence that staff bullied and assaulted residents with learning disabilities. Eleven members of staff were charged with a range of offences including ill-treatment and neglect. Most have pleaded guilty to the charges, while two face trial. It comes as the CQC disclosed that more than 4,300 whistle-blowers have come forward over the past 16 months to complain about the treatment of elderly and disabled people in care. Some of the complaints concerned care home residents being physically assaulted, it said, with complaints rising from 22 a month in December 2010 to 556 in March 2012. The CQC said whistle-blowers included relatives and staff.