A young disabled woman has described the abuse she experienced in a charity-run mental health hospital, and has called for more to be done to close such long-stay institutions. Abigail Donohoe (pictured) spent more than six years in mental health hospitals […]
CQC
Care regulator faces ‘whitewash’ allegation by MPs and peers over abuse scandal
Activists call for closure of all long-stay hospitals after Whorlton Hall scandal
TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Urgent action call on deaths of autistic people
Government agrees to review every care segregation case, after CQC report
Hancock announces ‘seclusion and segregation’ review… after 70 years of concerns
Autistic-led taskforce will address ‘hypocrisy and injustice’
Remploy refuses to carry out basic background checks for care inspection roles
The company employed by the care watchdog to find service-users to help inspect residential homes and hospitals is failing to make the most basic background checks on its recruits, undercover journalists have discovered. The two reporters had been told of concerns […]