The Great Disability Scam? Panorama 28th Jan BBC1 8.30pm

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WATCH HERE  –  Monday 28th Jan 20:30 BBC One

Duration: 30 minutes

Only half of all people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government’s most ambitious welfare reforms, costing billions of pounds, can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Reporter Sam Poling reveals the private companies who are getting rich from the new reforms despite only being able to get a small fraction of disabled people back to work, and speaks to the charities who feel the most vulnerable in our society are being failed

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Panorama Undercover care – The Abuse exposed

A further update will be added tomorrow but in meantime here are some links from BBC website.

Available on BBC iplayer here

A specialist residential hospital in Bristol is being investigated by police after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse.

Reporter Haunted

 Joe Casey spent five weeks filming undercover in a private care hospital on the outskirts of Bristol after getting a job as a support worker. He was shocked by what he witnessed

Castlebeck statement

4 people arrested

Care Quality Commission statement