{"id":283742,"date":"2025-10-02T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/crisis-in-care-of-learning-disabled-and-autistic-people-revealed-by-itv-news-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:05:23","slug":"crisis-in-care-of-learning-disabled-and-autistic-people-revealed-by-itv-news-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/crisis-in-care-of-learning-disabled-and-autistic-people-revealed-by-itv-news-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in care of learning disabled and autistic people revealed by ITV News investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/s6Ax2wdX9Zw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Crisis in care of learning disabled and autistic people revealed by ITV News investigation\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6Ax2wdX9Zw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The family of a disabled man who died after not being given any food for nine days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital has told ITV News, \u201cwe thought he was having nutrition\u2026 but as it turns out, they were starving him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes as an ITV News investigation has revealed a crisis in the care of learning disabled and autistic people. <\/p>\n<p>Bereaved families of people with learning disabilities have told ITV News they believe their children died due to failures in NHS learning disability care.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Poulton, 56, had Down syndrome and was admitted to Poole Hospital in September 2021 with a broken hip after a fall at his care home.<\/p>\n<p>His hip was on the mend, but he was incorrectly listed as \u2018nil by mouth\u2019 by doctors during his time in hospital and was fed nothing for nine days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a disabled man who died after not being given any food for nine days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital has told ITV News, \u201cwe thought he was having nutrition\u2026 but as it turns out, they were starving him.\u201d This comes as an ITV News investigation has revealed a crisis in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":283743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[129466,130059,130244],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-283742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-died","tag-disabled","tag-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crisis in care of learning disabled and autistic people revealed by ITV News investigation | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Crisis in care of learning disabled and autistic people revealed by ITV News investigation for free, here on News ISC. 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