A brief guide to mental capacity for adult siblings of people with lifelong learning disability and/or autism.
MPs to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities being locked up like criminals in psychiatric units
The dramatic move follows Mail on Sunday revelations that hundreds of teenagers and adults are being incarcerated – at a cost to the NHS of up to £730,000 a year per person – in appalling conditions, forcibly injected with drug cocktails and stuffed into tiny padded isolation cells.
Harriet Harman, chairman of the influential joint committee on human rights, has invited parents of sectioned teenagers as well as people held against their will to give evidence this week, as part of a wider inquiry into detention.
New report: Alarming rise in autistic people in mental health hospitals care (6 December 2018)
A new National Autistic Society report lays bare the extent of the scandal of autistic people being left behind in mental health hospitals* (including Assessment and Treatment Units) – often miles away from their friends and family and subject to unnecessary seclusion, restraint and overmedication.
Guardian: For disabled children in poverty, this Christmas is straight out of Dickens
Thanks to government austerity, 40% of disabled children are now so poor that they’re going without presents.
Read the article herehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/disabled-children-poverty
