is the new national Co-Director for Learning Disability in the Department of Health. Read an interview with her in the Guardian.She is working with Rob Greig to challenge the social exlusion of people with learning disabilities.
This is the first time that anyone with a learning disability has ever held a senior government post!
One of the main reasons she feels qualified for the post is her experience of living in a hospital for some time. In her words "it was very grim". She is concerned to hasten the closure of all the last hospitals and "campus" NHS homes. Another aim of hers is to address the removal of children from learning disabled parents.
I am looking forward to finding out how she gets on - I also am interested in how the Co-Directors will work together - another first I think.
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