Just published: CQC Report “Out of sight – who cares? A review of restraint, seclusion and segregation for autistic people, and people with a learning disability and/or mental health condition”.
Posting in a hurry but please follow these links:
The report itself… https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20201022b_rssreview_report.pdf
And reaction to it. (BBC News headline is “CQC report: Care of people with learning disabilities ‘inhumane'”
- “https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/hospitals-autism-learning-difficulties-care-cqc-report-england-b1226753.html
- https://www.nmc.org.uk/news/
news-and-updates/response-to- cqc-report-out-of-sight-who- cares/ - https://medium.com/@
CareQualityComm/cqc-out-of- sight-who-cares-a-human- rights-issue-ec817dcc3e87 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
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The BBC report has details of ‘the Bethany case’, which featured in articles in the Independent in 2019 & 2020 by journalist Ian Birrell (articles to which we have referred in earlier posts and tweets)
More to follow…