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• The distressing reality of ‘care’ for disabled young people | Letters

  26-04-2023 18:58
  
  Readers express their anger at the abuse of vulnerable people in care settings highlighted in an article by John HarrisI was both saddened and enraged to read John Harris’s article about the continuing abuse and torture of people with learning disabilities and autism (Learning-disabled and autistic people are being neglected and tortured. How much longer?, 24 April). When will we realise that human services are not suitable fodder for money-making, shareholder-favouring companies? Although
  
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• English council bosses demand urgent help for ‘exhausted’ unpaid carers

  26-04-2023 07:00
  
  Social services directors set out reform plan and say care system has never been so close to breaking pointCouncil bosses have said attempts to patch up the social care system have “run out of road” and are demanding urgent help for England’s “utterly exhausted” army of 4.7 million unpaid carers.“Never in my professional career have I seen the adult care system so close to breaking point,” said Sarah McClinton, the outgoing president of the Association o
  
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