Police in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at a residential hospital. Andrew McDonnell, who works with adults with mental disabilities, labelled some of the examples seen on film ‘torture’. The hospital's owners, Castlebeck, have apologised and suspended 13 employees. See: Frail elderly people will be left to suffer unless David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband can put aside their political differences to agree urgent reforms to the care system, an alliance of charities, think tanks and councils warned yesterday. In an open letter to the three party leaders, The Daily Telegraph reported the groups saying that time has run out for political wrangling over how to look after the millions of elderly and disabled people who need support. With the system at ‘breaking point’, MPs of all parties must now reach a ‘consensus’ or condemn generations of pensioners to a life of poverty, misery and pain.

Pray: that this incident in Bristol would raise awareness of the need for changes across the system. (Lev.19:32)

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