MANCHESTER Council will ask the government for a public inquiry into a mental health unit at the heart of a BBC Panorama investigation aired last month.
The calls for an inquiry come with fears that alleged abuse of patients at the Edenfield Centre, as claimed by the BBC, is happening at other Greater Manchester's mental health treatment units.
Staff, including support workers, and registered nurses, were secretly filmed by an undercover Panorama reporter embedded in the unit from March to June of this year. The footage appeared to show patients being bullied, humiliated, sworn at and taunted.
Police have begun a criminal investigation which centres on a facility in the grounds of the former Prestwich Hospital in Bury. Sources have told the M.E.N.
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