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
How can we ignore this cruelty?
Published by The i paper (11th March, 2019) The abuse, the bullying, the cruelty were simply grotesque. One person is said to have been made to eat a […]
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 – […]
Arts / Disability / Film / Technology
The invisibility of disability on the screen
Published by UnHerd (10th January, 2019) It is ironic that Bryan Cranston has been forced to defend his right to portray a person with disabilities when promoting his […]
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 […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Worse than Broadmoor for autistic children, reveals whistleblower nurse
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th January, 2019) Ian Summers spent eight years as a mental health nurse at Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric hospital holding some of […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Stop the state from stealing our children
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 […]