People with learning disabilities are forgotten ingredients of Scotland, says Jan Savage, and that must change. The political pre-election...
People with learning disabilities are forgotten ingredients of Scotland, says Jan Savage, and that must change.
The political pre-election rhetoric has forgotten us components with a group left - 120,000 people in Scotland with a learning disability and their families.
That's more people than the total number of voters in the middle and in the north of Edinburgh and Leith in Scotland last elections in 2011th
Each party forget nearly half of Edinburgh? People with learning disabilities are left on major policy debates that affect their lives, such as education and social security. All main rooms create a comprehensive, easy to read the manifesto.
Choice of the key issues for people with learning disabilities rarely discussed and do not really know many politicians, how these things affect people's lives. We try that we open our hustings the parties and they deliver #BeTheChange our ten major changes in the next parliament ask to show #ENABLEtheVote to change call.
For example in, we hear the pre-election a lot about the performance gap and discussion of education reform - these discussions often focus on the rich and the poor. But there is another in Scotland achievement gap among young people to learn the disabilities and have those that do not.
Our national conversation about life in school for people with learning disabilities has already found half of young people who have been excluded from the learning difficulties informal school.
It was also that the amount of support that was provided to them is already terribly inconsistent. This negatively affects every chance in life.
We also know that the reform of social assistance have left households with children and adults with a reduction of £ 1900 a turnover Personality of the Year of People with Disabilities - the experienced three times the reduction of other households.
In the case of employment, while about 75 per cent of the Scottish population is employed, only seven percent of people with learning disabilities have a job, despite more than 65 percent of them eager to work.
Scotland has the opportunity to do things differently and to really make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities. People with disabilities and their families - This debate should be guided by the voice of experience.
In early April, the first of eight special tribunes in Edinburgh for the difficulties in which candidates of the grid was a place of learning. At the top of the agenda were social security, education, employment and be really involved in politics - a pattern in the subsequent events repeated across the country. change ENABLE Scotland politicians called too often of Scotland "forgotten ingredients."
• January Savage's manager of external affairs campaigns and allow Scotland
