ALT Text reads: “Baroness Hollins’ final report shines a vital light on system wide failures that sees solitary confinement used to ‘warehouse’ people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health hospitals with devastating consequences. She and her panel are clear there is no therapeutic benefit from solitary confinement, rightly demanding its use in relation to children should be outlawed and limited for adults.”

ALT Text reads: “The government must act with urgency and implement the recommendations she has set out to end this barbaric practice, and develop the community based services that are desperately needed to support people in crisis and avoid hospital admission. It is unacceptable that two years after this latest phase of work started, the majority of the 114 people who have had their treatment reviewed remain in solitary confinement, and only 7 have been discharged into the community.”

ALT Text reads: “It is bitterly disappointing that as this report is published, the government has already failed to include in the King's Speech vital changes to the Mental Health Act that would have supported this work and addressed the unacceptable treatment of people with a learning disability and autistic people within the mental health system.”