Mental health hospital facing teen mistreatment claims to shut after Sky News investigation

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Mental health hospital facing teen mistreatment claims to shut after Sky News investigation
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The alleged failings at Taplow Manor in Berkshire, then run by The Huntercombe Group, put young people at risk, according to former workers.

Amber has detailed a catalogue of failings in her care

"They'd hold you down and you'd be crying screaming. Sometimes it would be painful and they wouldn't listen."Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerContent warning: this article contains references to self-harm. Thirty new patients have contacted Sky News following our investigation. They include a 16-year-old boy whose mother told us her son's self-harming increased.

She said:"Sometimes when they were trying to get me in holds, they would swing me round really hard and I would fall into the wall so I would get bruised knuckles.Former worker Callum Smith told Sky News:"There were a lot of incidents that could have been avoided. There are a lot of patients who maybe caused significant harm to themselves, which could have been avoided had we had more staff.

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