13 May 2021 May 2021 marks 10 years since the abuse at Winterbourne View came to light. To mark this anniversary, we’re working with #Right2Home to give people information about human rights when accessing health and care services, particularly in inpatient Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs) like Winterbourne View. As a human rights charity we work with people, communities and staff every day to prevent another Winterbourne View. We support people and families to challenge practice which isn’t rights respecting and work to ensure staff across all health and care services (and other services) respect and protect human rights in everything they do, every day. Join our events on Wednesday 26 May 2021 to find out more about human rights in ATUs. This work is part of #Right2Home’s week-long campaign, and is supported by Irwin Mitchell, a law firm. Lunch and Learns Our Lunch and Learns are informal chats with a member of BIHR staff. We run these at lunch time on t…

This post was originally published on British Institute of Human Rights News .