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ROB GREIG
The prevailing model of housing and support for people with learning disabilities in this country is residential care. But the residential care legislation that we have results in people immediately having a number of rights taken away from them when they move into a residential care home. So for example, they could be moved out of that house at the whim of a local authority or a care provider because someone else needs it for cost reasons.
They have no say over who goes in and out the front door of that house, over who supports them. They can't decide to have people to stay overnight if they wanted to. So what happens to relationships? If a person wants to get a job, the benefits system around residential care effectively prohibits that happening. So a whole series of rights are immediately compromised by the prevailing legislative framework for supporting disabled people. Those kinds of things need to be looked at as part of the government's response to this report on the convention.