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3 years ago a sealed box of memory sticks was discovered at a special school containing 500 hours of CCTV

The police investigated but no charges were brought

But we've discovered that pupils faced appalling abuse and neglect

Full prog:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Annabel Deas

I'm still of the view that there should not be any 'calm rooms' in schools that have doors on them. And that the current guidance for schools is inadequate. These are awful awful stories and they are not just happening in one school.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

On and on it goes. Special school pupils ‘tortured’ in calming rooms, BBC investigation finds bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

File on Four is here if you can bear to listen which I can’t because we lived it. Huge thanks to the team for highlighting this.
Children & young people with learning disabilities & autism, matter because their lives have value. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Thank you Daily Mail Online for sharing our story: Pupils at special school 'tortured' by staff, BBC probe claims dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… via Daily Mail Online Noel Titheradge

.Annabel Deas and I have been investigating how staff filmed abusing special school pupils in so-called calming rooms were not sacked.

This is the full report of David's story, one of the pupils.

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Autistic non verbal children were locked in a room later used as a cupboard. Unable to tell their parents what was happening, one child would dig his short fingernails into his mothers hands til they bled. You can listen our File on 4 here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Noel Titheradge

Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine. @noeltitheradge & I discovered that despite proven abuse some staff are still employed there and have not been barred from working with children. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

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The FCA has moved its FOI team into its press division.

As campaigners point out this creates a fundamental conflict of interest within the agency.

Increased internal pressure to circumvent inconvenient disclosure would clearly harm the public interest.

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