The care services minister said failing councils and NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) would be “named and shamed” in a progress report, expected next month, on the government’s programme to improve care for people with learning disabilities or autism and “challenging behaviour”. He made the comments today, two years after BBC Panorama exposed abuse of people with learning disabilities at the now closed hospital near Bristol, run by Castlebeck.
Before their abolition on 1 April, all primary care trusts should have drawn up a register of clients placed in inpatient units, such as assessment and treatment centres, to pass on to the new CCGs. By 1 June, all CCGs and councils should have reviewed the needs of this group and developed personal care plans designed to support them to move into community settings by next June.
