The news follows a report from the Healthcare Commission revealing that one in three in-patients in mental health and learning disability services have experienced violent or threatening behaviour while in care. Almost a third of the incidents involved threats or verbal aggression, with pushing or hitting another person, throwing or striking furniture or objects, and resisting restraint also featuring highly. Dinah Morley, deputy director of charity YoungMinds, said teenagers continued to be placed on adult wards despite...


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