X682/10/3

Correspondence concerning provisions for people with learning difficulties. Including: - Views expressed by 13 Welfare Visitors who are in daily contact with families with handicapped children - Lack of help for the multiply-handicapped or those with behaviour problems - Lack of provision for mentally-handicapped school leavers and those completing further education courses - Social services provisions for children before and after school - Care plans and care assessments for young people with severe learning disabilities and health problems who are leaving school - Community care funding at central and local level - Proposal by Social Services to disband the team for children with disabilities, especially the post of transitions co-ordinator - Rumours of the closure of day centres for people with learning difficulties - Level of care in Mencap Foundation Homes including cleanliness.

Mar 1984 - Dec 1998

From: 1984 To: 1998

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disabled access, education severe learning difficulties