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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (11th March, 2019) The abuse, the bullying, the cruelty were simply grotesque. One person is said to have been made to eat a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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