The BBC has obtained confidential material revealing appalling abuse and neglect affecting 39 pupils.

Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at a special school and leaving them in their urine, the BBC has found.

Despite the school proving abuse in so-called “calming rooms”, some staff are still employed there and have not been barred from working with children.

Parents say they have not been allowed to see the footage and were misled about the use of isolation.

Pupils were left alone in the rooms for up to four hours, with footage showing them naked, sitting in urine and eating crumbs off the floor

Children were “slammed”, kicked and hit with force “without obvious justification”, while rhino pads - often used in rugby training - were deployed to push pupils inside

The HR consultant identified more than 20 CCTV clips of excessive force and records of police notes described possible assaults - but despite this the Crown Prosecution Service did not recommend prosecutions

A whistleblower who worked at the school describes what they saw on CCTV as “torture” - and says the rooms were worse than cells

  • livus@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    What a horrpr show, and now some of the victims have grown up and are self harming.

    The leaked documents describe a staff member pinning him up against the wall of a room and hitting him with such force his body is recorded as “jolting” before he then becomes unsteady on his feet.

    The external consultant found that the incident constituted proven physical abuse and said the teacher had shown no remorse or concern for Ashley’s welfare when interviewed, suggesting a “potential absence of learning”.

    More like an obvious absence of basic humanity. Those teachers should never have been allowed to stay on, they are sociopathic.