Time for change: the challenge ahead
This report can be read here, with an easy-read found here
Sir Stephen Bubb, the author of the Bubb report, has called on the government to appoint a Learning Disabilities Commissioner.
His original report Winterbourne View – Time for Change suggested radical changes to the way the nation treats people with learning disabilities.
In this follow up report, he now believes the challenges of reforming support for the vulnerable are larger than first thought and that subsequent proposals (Oct 2015) to deliver these changes are based on over-optimistic assumptions, hence the need for a Learning Disabilities Commissioner.
The Bubb report, ‘Winterbourne View – Time for Change’, proposed two key reforms:
- The closure of inappropriate institutions and the ramping up of community provision
- That Government legislate for a Charter of Rights for people with learning disabilities and their families.
In October 2015 NHSE published a closure programme but the Government has, so far, failed to introduce a Charter of Rights.