ITV News
Daniel Hewitt, Isabel Alderson-Blench, Imogen Barrer and Mariah Cooper
ITV News’ shortlisted pieces were:
- My daughter had been kidnapped’ – ITV News exposes families being cut off from disabled relatives in care
- “They starved him to death” – How NHS failings leading to avoidable deaths of learning disabled people
- ITV News finds Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders placed on medical records of learning disabled people without consent
- ITV News uncovers new allegations of neglect at UK’s largest specialist care company
People with learning disabilities are among the least powerful in our society, and for that reason among the most easily wronged. This investigation by ITV News made their suffering impossible to ignore, and impossible for those in authority to dismiss. That is the Orwell Prize standard, and this investigation met it.
– Phil Collins, Chair of Judges,
The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2027
