A privately-run mental health hospital has been placed in special measures after inspectors found vulnerable children were kept in unsafe seclusion units.
St Andrew's Healthcare Adolescent Service in Northamptonshire has been rated "inadequate" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The hospital, which is routinely commissioned by NHS England and local authorities to care for vulnerable patients, has been told it must make a number of improvements, including treating "patients with kindness, respect and dignity".
Inspectors raised a number of concerns about the use of seclusion and segregation and found that care had deteriorated since previous inspections.
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