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Kids on the Psychiatric Ward

Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward - a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed them and left them traumatised.

Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward - a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed them and left them traumatised.

BBC Disclosure investigates claims that physical restraints and forced sedative injections are overused within a culture of cruelty among nursing staff in a specialist NHS unit.

With first-hand testimony from six young women, this film shines a light on life inside a mental health hospital for some of our most vulnerable children.

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59 minutes

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Sunday 00:35

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Reporter Mark Daly
Editor Shelley Jofre

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