A report by the joint select committee on human rights said the practice of detaining children in mental health hospitals is "inflicting terrible suffering on those detained and causing anguish to their distraught families".
The committee said that evidence to its inquiry was so "stark" and consistent that it has "lost confidence that the system is doing what it says it is doing and the regulator's method of checking is not working.
And it warned that too often families of those with learning disabilities and/or autism are "considered to be the problem when they ought to be the solution".
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