Compensation for care assistant

A care assistant who was hurt whilst lifting a resident at a residential care home has won £8,000 compensation from her former employer after injuring her back and subsequently losing her job. She was required to help dress an elderly lady who was immobile. Together with a colleague, she had to drag the lady up off the bed whilst reaching around to pull undergarments up resulting in an injury to her back. She was eventually forced to leave her job.