Students at London special school 'tortured' in so-called calming rooms, investigation finds

Pupils at a London special school were locked in “calming rooms”, beaten and left in their own urine, an investigation has found.

Staff were filmed hitting and kicking pupils at Whitefield School in Walthamstow, which is one of the UK’s largest special schools with about 370 pupils.

But some staff are still employed there and have not been barred from working with children, according to .