
Panorama, Castlebeck and Privatisation
by Stephen Cowden, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Coventry University (June 2011)
The recent BBC Panorama programme about the abuse of learning disabled people at the Winterbourne View Hospital run by Castlebeck is a moment in which we need to begin to start talking, yet again, about the way these issues have been facilitated by the privatisation of Adult Social Care.