Mission Invisible
I watched the Public Accounts Committee session about ‘Care for people with learning disabilities’ earlier this week, which asked questions both about the progress of Transforming Care but also more widely about support for people with learning disabilities. Transcripts of the oral evidence session can be found here and you can watch the session here . The National Audit Office report upon which much of the questioning was based is here . It put me in a very bad mood, and it took me a while to articulate what this was about. I think what got to me was my impression of the complete absence of people with learning disabilities, or it being in anyone’s mind at any point that people with learning disabilities could/should be agents of their own destinies and have power over anything. But my impressions, anyway, can be quite wrong, so I thought, in true nerd fashion, I would test out this impression with a bit of quantitative analysis of the transcript of the session. Here goes...
