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Winterbourne View: self-advocates say ‘acid test’ will be action on hospitals

19/12/2012 – 3:00 pm

Leading members of the self-advocacy movement have given a guarded response to the government’s report into the Winterbourne View abuse scandal.
They spoke out after the government pledged to move hundreds of people with learning difficulties and “challenging behaviour” out of hospitals and into new homes in the community, and promised that service-providers would be held [...]

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Winterbourne View: Minister says action is ‘national imperative’

19/12/2012 – 10:00 am

The government has pledged to move hundreds of people with learning difficulties out of hospitals and into new homes in the community, in the wake of the Winterbourne View abuse scandal.
It has also promised that companies that provide services to people with learning difficulties would be held accountable – possibly through the criminal courts – [...]

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