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It Is Clear From The Interviews Undertaken For This Research That Learning ...

It is clear from the interviews undertaken for this research that learning disabled persons seek not sympathy or pity, but simply the financial means to adjust to mainstream life and to have an equal chance to make of themselves, of their talents and ambitions, of their skills and gifts, exactly those same things that normal people seek to make of theirs. But all too learning disabled persons are thwarted in their cries for equal opportunity by the erection all about them of walls or bureaucracy and towers of paperwork and formidable technological sophistry. None would deny that the present government has invested unprecedented sums in the health-service generally and in learning disability in particular; but what they resent is the paltry improvements brought to them by the spending of these huge sums. Very simply: for all of what has been put in, not enough has come out - a theme stamping itself everywhere across upon the present condition of the healthcare system.

Just as it is that a researcher must go to the people immediately effected by a policy (here, the learning disabled) to discover the true effect of that policy upon them, so also it is to these that the researcher must go to find a real tonic for their needs. Thus, in this final part of the dissertation, the researcher will present a three recommendations and policies drawn directly from conversations with the learning disabled. In this way, by finding a middle ground and a synthesis between knowledge taken from the ground-level and the organization of this information in government policies, it is expected that more useful and efficacious proposals can be forwarded here that might engender a definite and concrete improvement and march towards equality of opportunity for Britain's thousands of learning disabled.

Recommendation 1: Speak with Us Directly and Listen to Us

The government must inquire directly of the learning disabled themselves what are their needs and aims, and must ask also of them how they might be brought. Policy must not be an abstraction formed only from above.

Recommendation 2: Flense Off the Officiousness and Bureaucracy of the Funding System

Far too much money is wasted on needless paperwork, it the setting and attaining of unnecessary targets, and in the statistical analysis of the problems of the learning disabled. Much better: spend this money directly upon better education, housing and social care for the learning disabled.

Recommendation 3: Abolition of Tax

It was the recommendation of one interviewee that if tax were abolished for all employed persons with learning disabilities that these persons would immediately have more money to organize their own care and realization of opportunities. This argument is endorsed by the present researcher.

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