Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal is John Pring’s new book investigating the horrific abuse of adults with learning difficulties that took place at two residential homes in south Buckinghamshire.
In the autumn of 1994, a leaked council report revealed that scores of people with learning difficulties had been beaten, neglected, drugged and raped at the homes in Buckinghamshire.
Now, 17 years on, the reporter who helped expose the scandal can, for the first time, tell the full, terrible truth about what happened at the Longcare homes.
Pring also describes the appalling impact of the Longcare regime on those who survived the abuse, and investigates the ingrained discrimination in society – and in our care and justice systems – that is still exposing people with learning difficulties to shocking levels of injustice, hostility and violent crime.
Longcare Survivors is the story of one journalist’s 17-year journey into the disturbing heart of our care system.
It is the follow-up to Pring’s first book on the Longcare scandal, Silent Victims, which was published in 2003 by Gibson Square Books and is now out of print.
Longcare Survivors was published on 3 June, with a foreword by shadow equalities minister Fiona Mactaggart MP. It is priced £12.50 (plus £3.25 postage and packing).
Or send a cheque for £15.75, payable to John Pring, to: John Pring, Disability News Service, PO Box 55196, London N12 2BW.
If you would like to order a copy for overseas delivery, or for further details about the book, please email John Pring at john@disabilitynewsservice.com or telephone 020 8446 5900 or 07776 206595
