Yet, people with a learning disability and autistic people were facing a distinct set of significant challenges long before the outbreak of Covid-19. There has been a deep, historical inequity in the development, commissioning and provision of care and support for these groups of individuals, often damaging their health and wellbeing, life expectancy, and in extreme cases placing them open to abuse.
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