PAPERWORK listing details which would provide open access to the homes of elderly and vulnerable people in Luton have been found dumped in a residential street.
The documents, which were found blowing down Wilsden Avenue, Farley Hill, on Monday belong to nursing and homecare specialist Medico, which provides home treatment for the elderly and vulnerable.
Along with the names and addresses of 11 Luton-based Medico clients, the list includes handwritten details of key safe codes which provide direct access for carers into seven of the clients’ homes.
The name of a female care worker also appears at the top of both sheets of paper, which appear to be a employee rota dated December 22.
The man who found the documents, a visitor to the town who did not wish to be named, told the Luton News of his disgust at finding details which could have left Medico patients at risk of crime if they had fallen into the wrong hands.
He said: “I was shocked when I found the papers. The fact that vulnerable people would be put in this position and left open to burglary and that somebody could be so careless and show such disregard to these people’s details is terrible.
“The reason I’ve come to the Luton News is because if I went directly to the company then I’m not sure things would change and it wouldn’t happen again.”
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