Inspectors have raised concerns around increased levels of violence, drugs, and the state of buildings at a prison. Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) also said HMP Huntercombe's leaking healthcare ...

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The UK’s care watchdog has been accused of failing to take action against a scandal-hit hospital before a catalogue of failings led to the unlawful death of a child. Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died on 14 ...

More than 20 former patients or their relatives have revealed how they were "treated worse than animals" and failed by the "awful" care they received at mental health hospitals for teenagers.

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Traumatised by months of forced feeding and isolation from her family on a secure psychiatric ward, 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz fled her family home through a toilet window and flung herself into a ...

A hospital at the heart of “systemic abuse” allegations uncovered by The Independent is to close permanently. Private mental health hospital owner Active Care Group has scrapped plans to reopen ...

Warning: This story contains details that some may find disturbing. The case of a teenager who was unlawfully killed after she was able to self-harm at a mental health hospital is "shocking", a ...

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl who died in hospital after she was left alone by a worker with a fake ID was “unlawfully killed”, a coroner has ruled. Ruth Szymankiewicz was left alone at a children’s mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Shutterstock) The owners of a group of privately-run children’s mental health hospitals are facing legal action by dozens of ...