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Opinion

Peter Limbrick

'And yet, every time I learn about a parent killing herself and/or her disabled son or daughter, I wonder if they had a keyworker and, if not, if a keyworker might have brought them back from the brink – or halted their progress towards it. This is a big question for me because I have to assume that each desperate parent hitting the headlines is the tip of an iceberg of misery and unmet need...

But how many times do we have to learn the lesson of the immeasurable benefit of human contact?'

 

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