Here’s Stephen Andrade’s story, written by his mother, Leo.
Just before he was 16, Stephen went to a residential school in Norfolk. Two years. It did not work as it did not have the services to provide for Stephen’s needs.
After two years, a multi disciplinary team comprising the doctors, the school and Islington social services decided Stephen should go to the dreadful hospital St. Andrews. In Northampton. He was there two years. Steven became withdrawn and became a shell of the boy that we knew and love.
Then after much campaigning he was moved to a lower secure hospital in Clacton on sea, Colchester.
He has been at the Clacton Unit for almost 15 months. It was only meant to be a short term measure for assessment.
Here is a film I took on my camera last year when I took Stephen’s younger brother to visit him at the Unit. he wasn’t…
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