Human Rights and the Government ' s response to COVID-19: The detention of young people who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities, JCHR

Last year, the Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the detention of young people with learning disabilities and/or autism in Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs) and other mental health hospitals which concluded that young people ' s human rights are being abused. Now that institutions are closed to the outside world as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of human rights abuses are even greater.
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