From the [UK] Guardian:

In a joint letter, a coalition of 15 charities complain that government policies in the UK are too focused on funding services for the elderly at the expense of people with learning disabilities. The advocacy groups said government policies inflict ‘needless hardship’ by ignoring younger age groups.

The Learning Disability Coalition of charities – which includes Mencap, the Down’s Syndrome Association, Turning Point and the National Autistic Society – says the government’s [policy] on care, published last week in a fanfare of publicity, virtually ignores those in younger age groups.

“You would think,” the letter says, “that after the neglect, abuse and institutional discrimination against people with learning disabilities revealed over the last few years … it would be hard to forget the one and a half million people with learning disabilities. Not so.”

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