News release: 6 March 2008
In response to the release of A Life Like Any Other? Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Barbara McIntosh, Co–Director of The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, said:
“The Joint Committee is to be congratulated for producing a report that pulls no punches in describing the struggles those with learning disabilities have to go through just to get on with their daily lives. It’s shameful in this day and age that people continue to be ignored, abused or discriminated against simply because they have a learning disability.
What we need now is for the voices heard in this report to be listened to and acted upon by government and the Equality and Human Rights Commission so that all people with a learning disability have full access to the human rights most of us take for granted.”
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For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact the press office team on 020 7803 1130 / 1128 or email sloveland@fpld.org.uk
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities promotes the rights, quality of life and opportunities of people with learning disabilities and their families.
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