Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray.

Here we are with just one day to go until the Paulfoot Awards.

Our miniseries is drawing to a close.

What a time it's been? You've heard fantastic stories. You've heard about Crispin Ode.

You've heard about child and adolescent mental health services. you've heard about Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, you've heard

about the A96, you've heard all sorts of stuff, and now you're about to hear our final

shortlisted entrant, the awards are tomorrow night, it is no exaggeration to say that lots of people are very

excited about it. Here is Shortlistine Number 6, take it away.

My name is Rebecca Thomas and I'm health correspondent for the Independent. And Rebecca, what is the story that's brought you to the Poor Foot Awards this year?

Essentially it's a campaign focused on systemic safety issues within the mental health care system.

And what was the first, if you you like big story that you worked on in this campaign?

It was an expose on a privately run group of mental health hospitals, Children's Mental Health Hospitals,

because patients were coming forward talking about a really awful experience

there.

And I actually was in contact with another journalist at Sky News, who was familiar with the service and we

combined forces and found dozens of patients in the end sharing really horrific

stories. So what was happening at these private hospitals?

Various things so for example treatments such as

immediately restraining children you've got young girls being restrained by

five or six male nurses bruised and really injured

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