We have reached a point in our society where children with special needs are being deprived of the essential educational support they need and children in care are being shipped around the land, far from their families and communities, as part of a cost-cutting procurement process. This represents a level of inhumanity nobody ever thought they would witness in our country and nobody with any claim to caring should tolerate.
It’s hardly surprising that the UN has despatched its special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to tour Britain to investigate the impact of austerity. The last United Nations investigation into the treatment of disabled people in the UK found a systematic violation of their human rights by this Tory government, which promptly dismissed the UN findings and then went on to inflict more harm with the imposition of Personal Independence Payments and Universal Credit.
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