Steiner's Camphill Villages reduced to mere care homes – UK

News from Andrew Sutton: Camphill Village communities have been providing care for people with learning difficulties in village communities alongside able-bodied volunteers since 1940.

Based on the principles of Rudolf Steiner, mentally-disabled people are encouraged to play a full part in village life, giving them value and self-respect.

The commercial care-provider model for which CQC is set up has no concept of volunteer support 'families' in which Camphill's less able residents live active and fulfilled lives

- and the UK communities are being systematically reduced to 'care homes' where residents passively sit round and watch TV rather than be actively involved in everyday working life to the level of their physical and mental capabilities.

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