Environment minister and MHK for Peel and Glenfaba Geoffrey Boot has hit out at the operators of the Corrin Home in Peel.

Financial problems have plunged the future of the residential facility into doubt, with the private company that operates the site facing insolvency.

It is legally required to cease trading at the end of July, but MHKs for the area say they could’ve helped find a solution had the directors reached out.

Mr Boot is disappointed the issues surrounding the home weren’t raised sooner.

However, Corrin Home director Alan Jones has said they did not flag up the financial difficulties to government for fear of being closed down.

Mr Boot said: ’We should have been engaged [by the home], and I think a number of people should have been engaged some time ago.

’There’s been no manager, there’s been no administrator.

’I think the staff have done a really good job on the professional care side, but businesses need proper management as well.’

It comes after the home’s board of directors released a statement saying that they were ’grateful’ that government has committed to keeping the nursing home open for another six months - as a result of an emergency Tynwald motion last week.

Treasury has also pledged funds to help the Department of Health and Social Care come to a solution.

The home’s board said that they are continuing to engage with government and are awaiting their detailed proposal for support, pointing out that none was forthcoming after last week’s meeting between Peel and Glenfaba MHK Ray Harmer, and the Treasury and Health ministers.

The board’s statement also spoke about the background to the difficulties, saying that ’despite recent publicity, the issue of the viability of the home is not new.’

It mentioned that the past board of governors had held a series with the DHSC chief executive and two departments back in 2018, together with two department members, where ’assurances of support were made’ but ’sadly none materialised’.

Because of this history, the board said it must consider Tuesday’s motion in Tynwald ’with a degree of caution’.