Margaret Flynn and Vic Citarella – authors of the Winterbourne View Hospital serious case review – reflect on what has followed the screening of the BBC Panorama Undercover Care: the Abuse Exposed five years ago in May 2011.

The serious case review was published by the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board in August 2012. In response to the findings and recommendations, politicians asserted that lessons will be learned and that they would set in train a number of continuing efforts to ‘transform’ services.[1] It was apt that they should deploy such terminology since, for us, the lessons have been stark....read more

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/learningdisabilities/care/ accessed 26^th May 2016