thank you for your messages, i ll just read one which is from simon who says he is in the north of england, saying, this has been ongoing for years now but it is worse put it as a family, we have been failed by four successive residential care placements and several local authority social services departments and failed by central government. i am services departments and failed by central government. iam now services departments and failed by central government. i am now caring 24/7 for my disabled brother who is deaf, blind, autistic, epileptic and has complex multiple disabilities, and i m also caring for my frail 92 year old mother in her home, having had to abandon my home and job on the other side of the country to do so. we have no support and we having to contemplate moving house to be in a different local authority area to try and get some support. hillary says there is a crisis in the number of care workers in the uk because as a society we do not value the work they do for
next up, we re crossing to the us and the city of milledgeville in georgia, which used to be home to one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in the world. in recent times, the half abandoned site has become a honeypot for urban explorers. william lee roberts, who is from the state, has been to take a look. sprawling, overbearing and derelict, these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and
and derelict, these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them
of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them and it s important to remember that this is still an active hospital. it s very disrespectful to them and to their treatment to try to come out here and either break into the buildings or q
these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times, deteriorating conditions. it s strange but when i was a little kid and i was misbehaving, my father would threaten me by saying i m gonna send you down to milledgeville and i would shut up. but to be here voluntarily all these years later, it feels a little wrong. a small section of the hospital is still in operation. there are still patients here at central state hospital over 300 of them and it s important to remember that this is still an active hospital.