Homes, hope, work and love: what learning disabled people want from life

Social workers are changing the way they work to help people with learning disabilities achieve their aimsSevere, complex, challenging: these words are casually used in the specialist world of learning disabilities. They are used to justify disproportionate and unnecessary involvement from social care, which can lead to dependency, restricted lives, unhappiness and even abuse, as called out by Sara Ryan.In our local authority, Bradford, we rejected the idea that learning disabled people were com