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Following the abuse uncovered at Winterbourne View in 2011, Mencap and the CBF invited families to come together to influence and inform the Transforming Care programme and campaign for the rights of people with learning disabilities to live in their communities and not be detained in mental health hospitals. The Campaign Families group now includes a wide range of families whose relatives are either detained, or have previously been detained, in mental health hospitals, and who want to campaign for the rights of their relatives and others with learning disabilities.
Alongside shaping and participating in campaigning activity, the Campaign Families group has met with government ministers, MPs, and representatives from bodies including NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care and CQC.
The work of the Campaign Families group feeds into all areas of the CB-NSG and its sub-groups.