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Lancashire Care providers urges government to prioritise learning disabilities

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This Learning Disability Awareness Week, Alternative Futures Group, a charity that provides specialist care across Lancashire says:'For far too long adult social care has been driven by cost, rather than being person-centred resulting in those being supported having limited choices about how they can live their lives.

Leading adult social care charity Alternative Futures Group is using Learning Disability Awareness Week to showcase the amazing achievements of people they support. The North-West based charity is also calling on politicians to focus more on helping people with learning disabilities and say they have been treated like “second class citizens” by successive governments.

Kofi, who has a learning disability, is also a musician, a model and a lived experience educational speaker. Rob is 55, also has a learning disability and is a radio host on Wythenshawe FM where he hosts a weekly show bringing together his love of music, conversation and football.

 

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