BBC R4 You and Yours: My Own Front Door

BBC R4 Disability correspondent, Carolyn Atkinson, presents figures about patients with learning disabilities and autism detained in inpatient assessment and treatment units (ATUs) in Britain.

She hears from Jan Savage, about ENABLE’s campaign in Scotland ‘My Own Front Door’, and Scottish Government’s promise to have most patients discharged by 2024.

Kate Sainsbury talks to Carolyn about her son, Louis’, unhappy experience of being in one of these units and Kate’s plans for Louis to move into a home of his own.