Millions spent on keeping adults with learning disabilities locked up, ITV News reveals | ITV News
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An ITV News investigation with the charity Mencap has uncovered it is costing over half a billion pounds a year to lock people up in mental health hospitals.
Peter Smith reports.
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This is actually disgusting
As someone with Asperger’s Syndrome whose had to put up with the so-called "special needs" section within each school, I can honestly say how much more sickening this situation is.
She wouldn't even have been having meltdowns if they weren't abusing her.
Mental health issues have been ignored in this country for years and rather than spend resources on helping these people lead fulfilling, lives they are locked up and ignored. It says all you need to know about a government by how they treat their most vulnerable. Disgusting.
Do they mean Psychiatric Ward?
Learning Disabilities or Mentally Ill?
Irene, did you miss the part where they mentioned Autism?
The treatment of these people is disgusting. I can only imagine how Daisy felt having no privacy, no agency, and being treated like she can't do anything - while she has the capacity to do lots. People with disabilities and autism (like myself) are people with the right to dignity.
I agree with u
Thanks for bringing this to light.
I was born with Learning Disabilities and I wouldn't like it in the hospital locked up and I'm really sad for other people who had learning disabilities who is locked up in hospital they should let the ones who shouldn't be there out from the hospital its really shocking what they are doing the staff needs to be sacked and hospitals closed down for good 😳😳😳
The reality is that you simply moved from asylum incarceration to prison, because nobody was bothered to ask what gives. They still don't.
As a person with a learning disability, I see this as the most disgusting way to treat people. All we are asking the NHS is to take the millions spent on keeping people imprisoned and pay more to those who are trying to help us. The waiting time to get help is now 3 years, and they have stopped taking any more patients due to this. I am on antidepressants with diagnosed ADHD and GAD.
My mum and dad are hitting their 70s and they adopted my cousin who has serious learning difficulties. They have had him since he was 6 months old. He is in his 30s now and we would never dream of putting him in care.
The government should be ashamed of themselves. like ashamed to even go out in public.
They shouldn't be allowed out in public. The government should be locked up instead of these people.
remind me of the good things this government has achieved
@@love-garden279not sure that's what he's saying. Australia is not a good example of anything.
@@love-garden279He's not saying that, he's being sarcastic as everything has gone to pot since this government came in 14 years ago.
That’s messed up of you to Say 😢 I HOPE You Get yours, @efrazer9019 locking up Disabled People For NO Reason,
@shawnafsworld7431 You need to work on your reading comprehension.
bahaha 🤣@@KumaBean
I have autism, this is pure evil I can't believe this shocking and shameful
They need a class action against the government!
Scandalous 😡😡😡😡😡😡
damaged and truamatised is an absolute understatement.
🤬 these people in charge should be behind bars. This is disgusting!!
My son has asbergars syndrome on the autistic spectrum and mental If anything happens to me or his dad this is what I’m afraid happening to my son His 20 this year but if he has a meltdown down and there is no one to care for him this is my worst nightmare for him
This is a DISGRACE 😢
As a mother of autistic children this to me is unfathomable. My son is mine, I've raised him, fought for him when all the specialists gave up and told me they'd never walk, talk or be able to have a normal life. My boys do it all now, yes the asd causes issues bit i work with them to understand why, how to manage and support them in doing it. The schooling system for sen kids is vile, my son was filmed naked by another kid while naked and changing for swimming, he was left unattended by staff that were meant to be with him every minute but they failed.... That video was distributed, my son bullied and tried to hang himself on school grounds was kicked out, permanently excluded apparently under safeguarding. The kid that filmed my son was also 11yrs old, same age but he'd distributed the video. When my son was kicked out, that boy was kept in the school for more than 2yrs after.
I'm sorry to hear that happened to him? Must have been heartbreaking as a mum? ❤
So sorry to hear that😞 Hope you and your beautiful son are doing much better now. He has just as much rights as everyone else and it's disheartening for the government to be so inefficient at creating genuine plans to help vulnerable people rather than locking them up. Disappointment isn't even a good enough word for the shambles that the government allow. Wish you all the best and hope things in the world for the most vulnerable get better because they matter just as much as everyone else❤
That’s atrocious! They should have gotten in serious trouble, that’s illegal!
This is just disgrafull!
Thank you Peter and ITV for excellent and thorough reporting. I am looking on from Melbourne, Australia, grateful for our taxpayer funded National Disability Insurance Schene helping to support families and individuals like my son to life happy lives supported at home and in the community. It is not perfect here, either, and practices and policies in the past have been a scandal. But I feel we are moving in the right direction. I hope the UK can do the same.
I recently saw an expose on one of the Australian news youtube channels about adult women in group homes being repeatedly, severely injured by other residents. (I'm in the US, so I'm not taking sides.)
It is cheaper to live in the community versus institutions.
Lack of funding my backside, irresponsible spending more like. Common citizens could fix what the government cant.
This is a disgusting, where the person centered care, the duty of care to prevent harm what the hell, and how the hell is this happing i work in care and its not this.
The more privatised the NHS becomes the worse this will become.
So, so sad. I hope and pray these poor people get the right care and help asap x
I blew the whistle on priory plc in 2015. Welcome to the truth
Someone is clearly making money from this.
Its tempting to think someone is getting rich, but its probably more petty than that. The very people who could discharge these individuals are the ones whos careers depend on their imprisonment. Nobody wants to do themselves out of a job or out of a promotion.
This doesn't make sense to me at all. Dangerous people who were put out to 'care in the community' and damaged those communities and re-offended, but children or young adults who can be housed or live with their loving families are locked up??? Where is the sense of it?
I’m in supported living, none of the supportive staff speak fluent English and treat us like we’re in a correctional institution.
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops come election time. There are laws now 20+ years old about disability equality, we’ve gone a long way backwards. Exploitation of these sectors for profit is responsible, and complacency.
Terrible and heartbreaking! 😢
Disability gulags
This absolutely terrifies me, have an adult son who has ADHD Autism and Learning difficulties currently he’s in a residential college full time. Our Social services want to pull the funding and put him in a supported living house with 2 other people like him and only 2 staff. Unfortunately we cannot have him full time at home, if they force this on him he will end up like this poor girl and others. It’s just so disgusting they’re setting him and others like him up to fail.
😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great work by Black Country healthcare 👍
ABSOLUTELY APPALLING.Two of my family members have been in psychiatric hospitals ( 1 for major depression, 1 for bipolar) and in our experience they're not pleasant environments. People presenting with aggression are just with everyone else - it's so distressing. I cannot believe people who do not require this type of hospitalization are being forced against their and their families will to stay indefinitly in such an environment. This government is disgusting. Unless you can be a top scientist, I.T technician, be in economics or (certain) engineering, you can go rot under them.
Now after seeing this disturbing footage I worry I could be forcibly locked up & falsely detained in hospital for life!!
That's half a billion they could spend on accommodation for immigrants
Mistergooji. There's always one 💩, isn't there?
@@Samuel-hd3cp or in Britain's case.... Another 500 on Wednesday 🤡🤡🤡
Exactly always have money for them don’t we 🤬
He is right wake up snowflake
@@leighannclements7849 because you're not important
I am Sickened watching this " it's Scary to Think how many parents have Hid their children away and agreed with the system , Then you have the loving parents defending represent in their children's rights .. It's absolutely insanity. Demoralizing the sufferings ..
Can we also take into account the large amount of Hypocrites that complain their children are locked up but refuse to take car of them themselves expecting the government to take care of their children but when told there's no funding the leave them in these places.
There's no money to support these people but NHS wasting millions on this? Just reassign the funds its not rocket science.
Precisely.
I'm waiting for the abuse scandals to come out of this...
Disgraceful.
Disgusting 🤬🤬🤬🤬
it's a lot worse for us with heart conditions and / or symptoms of rather more serious things...me? amazed that I am still alive.... ...a lot of mental issues are caused by things within the Body, - not the head... - faulty or irregular blood pressure renders a person unfit to drive at very least...
Autism is not a mental health condition 😅 seriously educate yourself. There is a genetic disposition to autism. 90% of my family has autism. It's gone from generation to generation. You cannot cure it. Just manage it. If you seen the stats for how young people die with autism or the sexual abuse or domestic violence they suffer from, you might realise they fight every day to stay alive. I know I do. This is coming from someone who also suffers a lot from chronic physical health issues who nearly died. Suffering is suffering. I'm sorry that you suffer too.
@@ageautistic6957very well said. I've never met anyone with ASD that has not also had physical difficulties too, often pretty severe. Unfortunately gut problems go hand in hand with ASD (I have Chrones Disease), and I think it's about a third have epilepsy - many of whom won't get the privilege of driving. I also hope OP well. However, few people are born with heart conditions & high blood pressure that prevent them living a normal life. Mostly heart conditions, high blood pressure etc come with age, in comparison to ASD which is lifelong, and dare I say it, some older people would not be suffering with their heart or high blood pressure if they had looked after their health. I've more sympathy for someone with ASD who is locked up and living half a life, than a 55 year old bloke who has had his freedom and youth, is married with kids, smokes 50 a day, drinks, is obese and then complains when he has high blood pressure.
@@ageautistic6957 ok, but I have got cardiac issues, any tongue swelling is caused by blood pressure and / or consistency (in my case anyway) ...possibly certain medications could help people with (physically handicapping) autism...
That is horrible should nothing going to parchment having a learning disability I have Dyspraxia I never locked up support people with learning disability’s.
Disgusting!
Well then, we’re gonna have to do the one thing the politicians won’t do…care 😎
Does it really matter how much it costs, as long there getting help
NHS and Parliamentary Ombudsman
Omg It’s sickening I’ve got tendencies of autism only affects my reading and writing but it’s absolutely disgusting and why are they doing this I suppose for their own safety in their well-being but can’t the families intervene
Why aren't they in independent living
Because there are not enough places! Didn't you listen??
@@illumindonnaughty theirs plenty of independent living , companies all over the place But probably not the area 1 wants
@@illumindonnaughty their is a difference between having a place to live with carers coming in , and independent living accommodation
In reports, I've seen before it's said they haven't been able to find suitable placements to support their needs? I'm not clued up in this, though? So, I'm not saying you're wrong.
@@illumindonnaughty that's fair I worked in independent living for ppl with complex needs Why I know of it. But by the sounds of it they want the daughter in a flat or house of ones own with carers Not in independent living.
So has daughter been removed from mother’s care?
No her daughter probably went there to be “assessed “ and is sadly now stuck in the system with no where to go. Cos there’s supposedly not enough resources in the community to meet her needs. Utter nonsense, there was a big documentary on tv serveral years ago about a place called Winterbourne View it flagged up loads of abuse that was happening there. Things like people being trapped under chairs while staff sat on the chair laughing. One lady was shut outside in soaking wet clothes. The gov promised then to close long stay secure units, but it didn’t happen and I’m not surprised that they won’t meet this target either.
Andy Cutler Chelation Testimonials. Please look it up, especially the child ones.
What do the people themselves want?
Scotland????
This is defeat of care in the community 😡😡😡😡😡
Welcome to dystopia. 😣
Money money...everything is about money...
What do you mean by locked up?
They are literally locked behind a door, it’s a secure unit with big intimidating high fences like u get in a prison. If they show “challenging behaviour “ they are restrained and sedated.
This inflammatory report misses out a lot of the processes involved in long-term care. It's not just one signature on a paper and you're serving a life sentence. There is more input from other services other than just the NHS, ie social care services, the Courts and the councils. Is the person vulnerable to exploitation financially, sexually or emotionally? Do they have the understanding to make decisions for their own welfare? Do they have a safe place to go to? AIs the person a risk to themselves or others. How many times have you read in the newspaper of some person with a learning disability being subjected to violent abuse, murdered or exploited, ie Lacey Fletcher left to die by her parents. Life in reality is more involved than just opening the door and pushing vulnerable people out.
My gramp lost his hand in accident aged 17 and just got on with things. Hed turn in his grave to see todays whiplash culture.
Nice to see a coloured face presenting news on ITV :)
Could they be let into the community? People who are the most vulnerable, particularly adults, can pose a risk to themselves but also others. Yes I understand it’s bad to be hospitalised but I don’t believe the women saying “more often than not” … that lady they have in the crash pad seems okay but there are others who would be nowhere near that level of functionality. That’s why she got out. If those families can’t manage them then it’s wrong to release them into the community. End of story.
But if the right supports were put in place they could manage, these people are not stuck in there because they have committed crime’s it’s simply that they have a learning disability. They probably went there to have their needs assessed , rejig medication . But now they are stuck miles from families cos it’s cheaper to send them out of county.
It's called 'support' your lack of empathy is glaring.
Defund the NHS
Defunding the NHS is why this is happening.
Bring back the asylums. Care in the Community only filled the streets with wronguns.
Are you alright?
Were you ignored as a child?? Seeking attention as an adult is the main sign...poor you.
@@peachmelba1637 Deflect all you like, at least I don’t look down on very unwell people, like you, you vile POS. They’re nicer people than you will ever be. Go and play in traffic.
Wronguns? I guess you should be at the the top of the list for admittance then.
If they can find weapons of mass destruction to give to corrupted countries then I'm sure they cud INSTEAD use tht money to help thrse vulnerable ppl! Madness! ANGLICANTS at it again! Evil!
Abuse has now been relabled mental health issues