We need more people with resilience and courage to oppose any attack on services for the learning disabled
IT has been heartening to see the range of writers, artists, politicians and academics coming out in support of people with learning disabilities and their families who are campaigning to keep open their day centres in Glasgow ("Kelman: Centre closures are attack on vulnerable", The Herald, December 17, and Letters, December 17, 18 & 19).
IT has been heartening to see the range of writers, artists, politicians and academics coming out in support of people with learning disabilities and their families who are campaigning to keep open their day centres in Glasgow (\"Kelman: Centre closures are attack on vulnerable\", The Herald, December 17, and Letters, December 17, 18 & 19).
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Day centres remain important places for many people with learning disabilities who value the skills they learn, the friends they make and the opportunities they get to know more about the world. The Glasgow day centres have continued to develop connections to the communities. Now only half the people attending Glasgow centres do so for five days a week. The rest have active alternative opportunities in the community supported by day centre staff. But rather than let this develop at the pace of people who have a learning disability, the council wants to shut these centres in a rush to save money by extending its personalisation process.
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We need more people with resilience and courage to oppose any attack on services for the learning disabled
IT has been heartening to see the range of writers, artists, politicians and academics coming out in support of people with learning disabilities and their families who are campaigning to keep open their day centres in Glasgow ("Kelman: Centre closures are attack on vulnerable", The Herald, December 17, and Letters, December 17, 18 & 19).
Day centres remain important places for many people with learning disabilities who value the skills they learn, the friends they make and the opportunities they get to know more about the world. The Glasgow day centres have continued to develop connections to the communities. Now only half the people attending Glasgow centres do so for five days a week. The rest have active alternative opportunities in the community supported by day centre staff. But rather than let this develop at the pace of people who have a learning disability, the council wants to shut these centres in a rush to save money by extending its personalisation process.
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