24-04-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com

Learning-disabled and autistic people are being neglected and tortured. How much longer? | John Harris

Across the UK, revelations of institutional abuse keep mounting up, yet people are still being denied basic respectImagine a chain of scandals focused on a huge number of very vulnerable and fragile people. Picture a horrific mixture of mistreatment and neglect that is institutional, subjecting hundreds of people to completely the wrong “care”, and ensuring that many of them are effectively locked up, often for years. Then add an element that is even more horrific: seemingly endless
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