Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine, the BBC has found.
Despite the school proving abuse in so-called “calming rooms”, some staff are still employed there and have not been barred from working with children.
Parents say they have not been allowed to see the footage and were misled about the use of isolation.
Pupils were left alone in the rooms for up to four hours, with footage showing them naked, sitting in urine and eating crumbs off the floor
Children were “slammed”, kicked and hit with force “without obvious justification”, while rhino pads - often used in rugby training - were deployed to push pupils inside
The HR consultant identified more than 20 CCTV clips of excessive force and records of police notes described possible assaults - but despite this the Crown Prosecution Service did not recommend prosecutions
A whistleblower who worked at the school describes what they saw on CCTV as “torture” - and says the rooms were worse than cells
That doesn’t sound calming at all.
They didn’t said who it was supposed to calm
They really could work on their branding a bit
Absolutely disgusting. The perpetrators should be in solitary confinement for abusing some of the most vulnerable members of society.
☝️ Spot the yank
The fuck does this even mean?
Probably something along the lines of, “Dumb American. Back in my day we beat sense into the autists and kids with down syndrome. Kids these days are too soft, only thing that’ll cure an autism is a good kick to the head.”
Quite the opposite, sweetheart
The proper response to a crime like this is punishment with rehabilitation
The American response is “aN eYE fEr An EyE oooeee muh FREEDOM bible said so”
It’s quite barbaric
Yeah let’s blame the Lemmy user instead of the people who were body slamming and making these kids sit in their own piss. What kind of cunt thinks Americans are the only ones who have an emotional reaction to this type of behavior?
Odd thing to focus on.
Anyway neither of you are going to get your way with this because the abusive teachers in this story were never even fired let alone facing criminal charges.
What? You put them in solitary just like they’re putting kids in solitary. That way they learn what it’s like to do that to someone else and then they won’t do it again!
Boom! Instant rehab!
It’s says a lot about the state of things that it’s impossible to tell whether you’re being sarcastic even with that last sentence…
Rehab works. You can see how your system doesn’t with kids that bully other kids at school, they’re bullied by parent or someone else close to them.
I’m like 80% sure that comment was sarcastic.
What a horrpr show, and now some of the victims have grown up and are self harming.
The leaked documents describe a staff member pinning him up against the wall of a room and hitting him with such force his body is recorded as “jolting” before he then becomes unsteady on his feet.
The external consultant found that the incident constituted proven physical abuse and said the teacher had shown no remorse or concern for Ashley’s welfare when interviewed, suggesting a “potential absence of learning”.
More like an obvious absence of basic humanity. Those teachers should never have been allowed to stay on, they are sociopathic.
I wish I lived in a world that that surprised me
Some adults get frustrated at a child’s disability and lash out. The more severe the disability the worse it tends to go. Even those of us who weren’t severe often got a light version of the cruelty of a frustrated adult without healthy coping skills.
This pleases the Peter Singer
