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Channel 4’s Under Lock and Key: exposing the reality beneath the rhetoric

A TV documentary has highlighted the heartbreaking realities of a failing commitment to provide appropriate community care for people with learning disabilities and autism.
Posted 10 March 2017 - 11:04
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