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01/11/2019

MPs call for a stop to the inappropriate detention of young people with autism or learning disabilities. And families still struggle to obtain medicinal cannabis, now legal in the UK for a year.

MPs call for an overhaul of the law on mental health to stop the 'horrific' and inappropriate detention of young people with autism or learning disabilities. We speak to the father of Bethany a young girl kept in seclusion for nearly two years at an ATU; her father can only speak to her through a hatch.
And a year after the law changed to allow NHS doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis, we hear from many families who still struggle to get it.

60 minutes

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Fri 1 Nov 2019 10:00

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Presenter Victoria Derbyshire

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