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March 2010
Testimonies of learning disabled abuse
March 2010
A new documentary, Sticks and Stones, shows that people with learning disabilities are still targets of violence, harassment or simple indifference
Keith Shortman, who was attacked by a gang of teenagers, in a still from Sticks and Stones.
It was all supposed to be different after the tragedy of Fiona Pilkington, the mother with learning disabilities who killed herself and her disabled daughter after a decade of abuse from teenage yobs. But according to the harrowing testimonies of people in a new documentary, Sticks and Stones, people with learning disabilities are still targets of violence, harassment or simple indifference.
Mark Gould, The Guardian, Wednesday March 3rd 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/03/learning-disabled-abuse-documentary
New focus on adults with autism
March 2010
Government pledge means adults with autism are set to get the same access to jobs, education and good healthcare as everybody else.
Adults with autism are set to get the same access to jobs, education and good health care as everybody else following a pledge from government today in its first autism strategy for England.
Care services minister Phil Hope says the strategy is not about creating a raft of new services, but about reorganising those that exist to help people with autism better. "The success of the strategy will depend upon those existing services changing to recognise and respond to the needs of people with autism," he says.
Sarah Boseley, The Guardian, Wednesday March 3rd 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/03/labour-adult-autism-strategy
