Post-Winterbourne View, why have so few learning disabled people been moved out of residential units? A forthcoming report aims to reverse the government’s ‘abject failure’ to find alternatives in the community nearer to their families. It is more than three years since the nation was shocked by sickening, secretly filmed scenes of abuse of people with learning disabilities at a private hospital near Bristol called Winterbourne View. Justice has long since taken its course, but the fallout from the scandal continues as policy-makers struggle to deliver on promises to move out up to 3,000 people found to be living in similar units. Not only has Norman Lamb, the care and support minister, been forced to admit to the “abject failure” of his initiative to find more suitable accommodation by June this year, but latest figures show that more people have been placed in the “assessment and treatment” (A&T) units than have been moved out. theguardian/society/2014/oct/29/winterbourne-view-few-learning-disabled-people-moved-out
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:54:41 +0000
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