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I'm Broken Inside: Sara's Story

Peter Marshall asks what lessons can be drawn from the story of teenager Sara Green and what can be done to fix the country's broken child and adolescent mental health system.

Sara Green was a teenager betrayed by a mental health system designed to protect her. Using Sara's own words taken from her diary, Panorama reveals the failings of a Priory hospital where she was an inpatient and where she took her own life in a misjudged cry for help. Peter Marshall asks what lessons can be drawn from Sara's story and what can be done to fix the country's broken child and adolescent mental health system.

30 minutes

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Role Contributor
Reporter Peter Marshall
Producer Matthew Hill
Executive Producer Frank Simmonds
Editor Ceri Thomas

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