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• Panorama Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal - 23/05/2019
    The Panorama programme has again exposed shocking abuse of people with learning disabilities, 8 years after the Government loudly and publicly committed to...    Read Full Story
• CQC- Interim report on the use of restraint, prolonged seclusion and segregation - 22/05/2019
  Closely following the Children’s Commissioner report on Monday 20th May, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published (Tuesday 21st May) its interim report on...    Read Full Story
• Office for Children's Commissioner report exposes the poor and restrictive treatment of children with learning disabilities and autism - 20/05/2019
  The Office for Children’s Commissioner have today published their report ‘Far less than they deserve: Children with learning disabilities or autism living...    Read Full Story
• Internship Opportunity - 15/05/2019
  Now in its 9th year, our internship programme is well established and structured to provide you with valuable experience. This is an excellent stepping stone into a...    Read Full Story
• CBF are Peoples Project Finalists - 29/03/2019
  We need your votes!!!!! We are all really excited at CBF to be shortlisted as one of the finalists in the Big Lottery People's Project in partnership with...    Read Full Story
• Latest Transforming Care Data shows care not transformed for thousands of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism - 21/03/2019
  With just a few days to go to the Transforming Care programme deadline of the end of March, the latest NHSE figures (for February) show that there are still 2,295...    Read Full Story
• Restraint and seclusion in schools - 31/01/2019
  We are publishing a new report today which shares family carers’ shocking accounts of their children’s experiences of restrictive intervention, shared...    Read Full Story
• Survey on family carer experiences of psychotropic medication use - 09/01/2019
   This survey is now closed, the results will be published here shortly. CBF have launched a survey about family carers’ recent experiences of psychotropic...    Read Full Story
• Winterbourne nurse who punched patient is struck off by nursing regulator - 13/12/2018
  9 years on - Winterbourne nurse who punched patient is struck off by nursing regulator  A nurse who punched a patient in the face at Winterbourne View hospital,...    Read Full Story
• Recent Media Stories - 31/10/2018
  The Transforming Care Programme was established to reduce the number of people with learning disabilities living in restrictive in-patient settings .  The aim was...    Read Full Story