Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) More distraught parents of teenagers and young adults with autism and learning disabilities locked up in secure hospital units […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
I have seen so many horrors – but this is barbarism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) I have interviewed abused women, bereaved parents, torture victims and girls in the captivity of jihadis. I have seen […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Life appears to be cheap if you have learning disabilities
Published by The Times (26th December, 2018) It is hard to imagine someone dying from gangrene in London, their flat stinking from rotting flesh. Yet this is precisely […]
Disability / Health / Policy
At 14, Jade was sent to hospital – and 13 years later they still won’t let her out
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) Jade Hutchings was a child who adored acting and animals, friends and family. But she suffered from anxiety and […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch […]
Disability / Health / Policy
MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities […]
Health / Policy
Harriet Harman challenges the section of autistic patients
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th November, 2018) Harriet Harman is leading a chorus of alarm from MPs over the scandal of youngsters with autism who are […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Profiteers of misery
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]
Disability / Health / Politics
The shame of imprisoning people for autism
Published by the i paper (29th October, 2018) Imagine that it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother. Taken away by the state against their will […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Shut away and threatened like animals
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]