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Everybody Matters
A powerful new film project is being planned which, following Winterbourne View, will provide an urgent call for the support and services that are needed to enable individuals and their families to lead good lives. This will be developed into a longer film to raise awareness of the impact of challenging behaviour on individuals with learning disabilities and their family carers. The aim is to demonstrate that good lives for people with challenging reputations and complex histories are possible and are happening.
Professor Jim Mansell, who features in the film, highlights the need to build services around the individual: “There’s no doubt that we need to take action to stop these kinds of services being used in this way as dumping grounds as an alternative to developing proper local services for people.”
Also featured on the film are family carers David and Jill talking about their experiences with their son James. Their moving account describes how his behaviours have been misunderstood, and the consequence of service failure. As Jill says, “I think that’s the tragedy of James.. there’s a human being inside there which you don’t see…”
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