Published by UnHerd (18th June, 2019) We should welcome the fact that the issue of inequality has surged up the political agenda, given the lingering injustices around class, […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Worried about US healthcare giants? They’re already here
Published by The Times (4th June, 2019) The response could not have been clearer when Woody Johnson, US ambassador to Britain, suggested that American firms would want access […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Hospital holds autistic man for 19 years – then gives him 20 days to go
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd June, 2019) A man with autism held in a privately operated secure hospital for almost two decades has been given 20 […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Autistic man locked in solitary confinement for ten years
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) An investigation by the Care Quality Commission discovered that a man with autism or learning disabilities has been locked […]
Health / Policy
Blood on their hands: the worst disaster in NHS history
Published by The Daily Mail (1st May, 2019) Steve Dymond and I never met. But over the years we developed a warm relationship via email and the odd […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Britain’s cruel care system shames us all
Published by The Times (19th April, 2019) The details are shocking. A troubled girl just 14 years old, sent for the first time into a place of supposed […]
Policy / Politics
How dare fat cat council bosses bleat about cuts?
Published by The Daily Mail (10th April, 2019) A few months ago, leaders of Labour-controlled Slough Borough Council added their signatures to a ‘Breaking Point’ campaign of councillors […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘It was pure torture’: autistic boy locked up, had head flushed down a toilet and punched so hard his jaw was broken in state care
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th April, 2019) When Ben Garrod turned 18, he was preparing to move from a specialist residential school into his own flat […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Sophie had autism. So why did her life end in a special unit for mentally ill people?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd February, 2019) Ben and Nickie Bennett had just finished dinner at home on a bank holiday Monday when the doorbell rang. […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Let them all out now
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th January, 2019) A mental health nurse has revealed she saw staff in a secure psychiatric unit restrain a patient with learning […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Investigation triggers 4th inquiry
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th January, 2019) A major investigation into the abusive care of patients with autism is set to be launched by MPs – […]
Disability / Health / Policy
No way to treat people with autism
Published by The i paper (7th January, 2019) The stories sound like something from a cruel military dictatorship or those hideous asylums we assumed had been banished to […]