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
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 […]
Aid / Disability
How charities are corrupted by Whitehall
Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]
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
Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Animals would not be treated this badly
Published by The i paper (22nd October, 2018) Stephanie Bincliffe left school at 16 and lived for two years on her own with help of a full-time carer. […]
Disability
A year on from the Paralympics, people with disabilities still face prejudice and abuse
Published in The Guardian (August 28th, 2013) When Don goes out, he faces frequent hostility. Despite living in a picture postcard part of the country, this man in […]