• Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions

    Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions
    Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will increase pressure on the government to end the practice of keeping people with severe learning disabilities in “modern-day asylums”.Nicola, whose 24-year-old son has been detained under the Mental Health Act since Septem

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