Whorlton Hall verdicts: Can further scandals be prevented?
Despite promises to make things better for vulnerable adults, the pace of change is slow – writes Alison Holt. …
The court case was the result of a 2019 undercover Panorama investigation into Whorlton Hall. It showed staff mocking and taunting patients. I remember tears running down my cheeks as I watched the secretly filmed footage. It reminded me of a similar investigation, also by Panorama and nearly a decade earlier, that exposed the abuse of patients at another specialist hospital, Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
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