Castlebeck also ran a number of other hospitals around the UK providing care to some of the most vulnerable people in society. Winterbourne View was owned and operated by Castlebeck Care (Teesdale) Ltd. Panorama had sent an undercover journalist into Winterbourne View, a private hospital in Bristol that provided assessment and treatment for adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
In May 2011, Panorama broadcast an undercover expose that shocked the country. Now, Andrew and Lindsey consider what should be a straightforward question: has anything changed since Winterbourne View? What was Winterbourne View? Some of our specialist solicitors, Andrew Hannam and Lindsey Connett, advised a number of clients who had been affected by the Winterbourne View scandal in 2011. ‘Under Lock and Key” focused on St Andrew’s Hospital in Northampton and raised concerns about the continued use of large style institutions to provide care for those with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. On 1 March 2017, Channel 4 broadcast a Dispatches investigation into care provided to some of the country’s most vulnerable people. Lindsey drafted the article below following a Dispatches documentary into a Northampton care home which had seen residents abused, and given the Mendip House report, its main line of enquiry remains equally pertinent today. Comparisons have been raised to the Winterbourne View cases, on which a large number of claimants were advised by Andrew Hannam and Lindsey Connett of Enable Law. The report produced by the SSAB refers to a “gang” of male staff members, who abused residents in a variety of ways ranging from financial to physical. Mendip House Care Home, which was run by the National Autistic Society as part of the larger Somerset Court facility, has since closed down. *Updated* Residents at a Somerset home for autistic adults were routinely mistreated by carers, a report from the Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board has found.
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The EHRC are not satisfied that the program is being implemented, and that these are signs of a systemic failure to protect the right to a private and family life, and right to live free from inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. *Updated 12 February 2020* The Equality and Human Rights Commission have today announced that they are launching a legal challenge against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, citing the continued failures in health and social care provision which have been highlighted by cases like those of the residents of Whorlton Hall.įollowing the revelations around Winterbourne View, the government introduced a “Transforming Care” program which was intended to prevent further abuse on the level of that found at Winterbourne. Serious allegations of physical and psychological abuse have been raised and it’s important for our clients that they have the opportunity for these to be investigated.” Lindsey Connett says: “Allegations of abuse at Mendip House first came to light after a whistleblower came forward in 2016.
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*Updated 23 July 2020* Following the update below about alleged abuse at Mendip House Care Home, we have now been instructed to investigate claims for compensation by the families of former residents.
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