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All about Choice and Control with @enables - Enable Us Programme is about employability and digital skills. 65% of LD ppl want to work but only 7% are actually in work. #OneDigital #LearningDisabilities
Enable Us programme of work being described by @ENABLEScotland #onedigital #learningdisabilities
Sorry - linked incorrect account above - @ENABLEScotland not @enables
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1/Children & young people with autism and learning disabilities who could be living in the community with specialist support are languishing for years in Assessment & Treatment Units, some of them locked up 24/7 in isolation rooms, bec of severe financial pressure on Local Auths
2/ At the same time, private providers running these ATUs are raking in profits, being paid £452m per yr in what has become a market driven provision where autistic and LD people are little more than commodities
3/ This in spite of the fact that caring for them in the community would be far less expensive not to mention far better for the individuals concerned, their quality of life, their security and safety and their wellbeing
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