Looking back
Handout photo issued by the BBC of a screen grab from a Panorama Special - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, depicting an incident between a resident and a care worker at Winterbourne View, in Bristol. Police have also launched a probe and arrested TEN years ago this week, the tragic death of a stranded sperm whale attracted hundreds of people to Redcar, desperate for a view of the magnificent creature. British Divers Marine Life Rescue volunteers with a 44ft Sperm whale, which has now died after it was washed up on Redcar beach in Cleveland, earlier this morning.
Winterbourne View lessons have not been learned 10 years on
Margaret Flynn and Vic Citarella lament that their report on care home abuse in 2011 has not brought necessary change
Winterbourne View residential hospital, which featured in the BBC’s Panorama report in 2011. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA
Winterbourne View residential hospital, which featured in the BBC’s Panorama report in 2011. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA
Letters
Thu 27 May 2021 13.13 EDT
Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 13.36 EDT
When we wrote the serious case review that resulted from Panorama’s Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, broadcast on BBC One in May 2011, we had little sense that this obsolescent model of specialist service provision would be so defiantly durable. The broadcast received national news coverage due to the cruelties and distress revealed at a private hospital that was being paid, on average, £3,500 per patient, per week from NHS coffers. Although it had an annual turnover of £3.7m, t