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Victims abused at a care home exposed in a Panorama documentary are to have access to counselling and support.

The Department of Health has awarded the charity Respond a £25,000 contract to provide family support groups and psychotherapy for the victims from the Winterbourne private hospital

Respond said it would offer the assessments to people who had suffered abuse-related trauma.

Castlebeck, which ran the Bristol home, went into administration in March.

It followed an investigation by the 91Èȱ¬'s Panorama programme, broadcast in May 2011, into physical abuse and neglect at the home.

Last year, 11 care workers admitted a total of 38 charges after they were secretly filmed abusing patients at the home, which looked after people with severe learning difficulties.

Six were jailed, the remainder received suspended sentences.