A recent report by Robin Jackson illustrates a perspective on what is happening in the United Kingdom for people with intellectual disability. This review of recent public policy and practice around support of people with an intellectual disability argues that we have reach a critical point of crisis, and that policy has been shaped by inhuman drives that endanger people’s dignity and their proper place in the community.
“…the ability of charities, advocacy schemes and lobbies to speak up for people with a learning disability has been progressively and consciously weakened by central government over the past few decades, which means that governments can proceed with policies disadvantageous to this population with little effective challenge.”