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To: Robert Halfon MP
Daytime Social Provision for Adults with Disabilities
Ensure funding for adults with disabilities in the 25+ years age group is not confined to work placed provision where many young people are unable to be accommodated because of their disability or vulnerability. Young adults in Harlow (and probably elsewhere in the country) have had college courses curtailed and many are without amenities (other than those provided by charities) to maintain their social lives safely.
Why is this important?
Young people with disabilities need to maintain their skills and their mental health into their adult lives. They are vulnerable adults and need to be able to access safe places and maintain social contact with their friends. My daughter doesn't understand why she is no longer seeing her friends at college. She can no longer do the unpaid work she had been doing for a number of years because of a medical condition. She is has no routine and no focus in her life for 6 days a week. I am a pensioner with health problems and unable to consistently take her to places where she can meet others and anyway there is no daytime place where she can find activities to keep her meaningfully occupied. One day a week she attends a local drama group run by a charity and her whole life revolves around this one activity.
