Residential Work ‘Camps’ For Disabled People - With The Able-Bodied Also In Their Sights

I’ve just heard about this Government panel report, published in July. It looks at the possibility of residential training provision for disabled people who are unemployed and looking for work. Apparently the Government plans to set up these ‘camps’ from September 2014 if the review is successful.

Now, the idea of sending several of ‘us lot’ off to one place to learn how to get ourselves a job when there is no need to segregate us in this way sounds more than a little like something the Nazis would have loved.

Readers, special schools are a choice every parent and disabled child should have. Remploy factories were a choice for segregated paid employment- they should still be here, but, surprise, surprise, they’re too expensive.’

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