PLEASE USE THE HASHTAG #hoLDingouthope

We, the below signed, request an urgent review in to the rights of people with Learning Disabilities in the United Kingdom. This review should be a cross-party debate and should seek to enforce immediate action to improve the rights of people with Learning Disabilities in this country.

Earlier this year, the Care Quality Commission found that just 30% of people with Learning Disabilities who had a DNACPR order placed on them after contracting COVID-19 actually agreed with the decision. Furthermore, initially people with Learning Disabilities were not originally considered as a priority for vaccination against COVID-19. Even after this changed, only people with severe Learning Disabilities were considered a priority, despite most people with mild and moderate Learning Disabilities still have a lower life expectancy, higher infection risk and higher vulnerability to serious illness than someone without Learning Disabilities

People with Learning Disabilities are still being made to work for free and exploited on a daily basis, often in the form of charities or organisations that claim to be giving people with Learning Disabilities 'work experience to benefit them'.

It is still legal for an abortion to take place after 24 weeks if the child is going to have a learning disability. Despite a High Court appeal, this remains in place. There has been no logical or valid reason for this. 

People with Learning Disabilities have, for too long been treated as second class citizens in this country. We need this to change. I want this petition to be the start of that change. 

#hoLDingouthope