Families launch legal action against scandal-hit hospitals after The Independent exposed ‘systemic abuse’

Exclusive: Allegations include children being injured during restraint, inappropriate force-feeding and patients being over-medicated

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Thousands of ‘sexual safety incidents’ at children’s hospitals not reported to watchdog

Exclusive: ‘Confusion and knowledge gaps’ between regulator and NHS putting children at risk, charity says

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Hospital of horrors: 1,643 ‘sexual safety incidents’ in a single 59-bed children’s unit

Investigation: Shocking figures reveal thousands of sexual incidents in the country’s 209 children’s mental health units since 2019. But just one – Huntercombe Hospital in Maidenhead – was responsible for more than half of these reports to the health service. So why were vulnerable patients still sent there by the NHS? Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas reports

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