Nadia Sharif took her own life within months of two other girls under the care of the same NHS trust.
By Philippa Goymer and Chris RobinsonThe family of a girl who died amid a string of mental health failures have called for changes so patients are not treated like "locked-up animals".
as part of a NHS England-commissioned inquiry into the treatment of Miss Sharif, Miss Harnett, and former patient, 18-year-old Emily Moore. "They need to train staff, they need to look after patients and not treat them as if they are animals locked inside. Plans written in the first person, including language 'highly unlikely to be used by a teenager', with no evidence the patient had written them.Her mother - whose first language is not English - was not included in discussions about her care, with an "assumption" made family members would translate.
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