Millions not spent on helping locked-in patients

The latest figures show there are 1,545 people with learning disabilities and/or autism on the newly-created dynamic support register, of whom 486 are classified as urgent.

There are 195 in hospital, of whom 85 are delayed discharge.

When the register was first published in November 2023 there were 1,243 people on it with 455 classed as urgent.

But, one of the criticisms of the report is that people with learning disabilities in forensic units, including Carstairs, are not even included in the figures.

The four young men with learning disabilities and/or autism BBC Scotland highlighted in August 2022 are still locked in hospital.

Kyle Gibbon, who is now 36, has been in Carstairs for 15 years.

Gordon Hughes is 27 and has spent the past seven years in Carstairs.

Fraser Malcolm has been in Woodlands View in Kilmarnock for four years. He has been recorded as a delayed discharge for the past two.

Jamie Henry, who is 27, has been living in Woodland View for five years and is recorded as a delayed discharge.