🧵Last night’s disturbing #Dispatches exposed people being desperately let down by NHS mental health services in Essex. 👇
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This comes less than two weeks after @BBCPanorama aired equally devastating footage from an NHS mental health unit in Manchester.
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Heart-breaking testimony of the families who have lost loved ones shows us why we cannot continue as things are.
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We welcome the announcement of an urgent nationwide safety review by NHS England.
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At the same time we also want to see reform of the Mental Health Act prioritised by the government. This must ensure people detained under the Act are treated as individuals and that they are supported in the least restrictive way possible.
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Four political parties have signed a new letter to @NorwichChloe, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, calling for a public inquiry into suicides and serious harm linked to the benefits system.
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Systemic failings within the benefits system have played a role in a number of tragic cases leading to serious harm and deaths across the country.
We’ve been campaigning alongside bereaved families in their search for justice.
A public inquiry is long overdue and this letter adds to growing pressure on the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Chloe Smith, to finally take action.