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Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.
Kate Belgrave
Journalist and blogger
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Who voted for this
Proving an autistic boy has meltdowns by prodding him into one
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We return to Hackney council and our ongoing story about the council's attempts to evict a disabled and autistic boy and his family from their council home.
The council tried again on Friday just gone, but fortunately, a court saw sense and suspended the bailiff's eviction warrant for 8 weeks because of the risk to the boy's health.
In the meantime, the council has come up with a gross idea to test the boy's behaviour on public transport.
The council's proposal is to stick this boy and his family in temporary housing 10k away from the school where he is settled. He'll have to get public transport to this school. His school is just across the road from his present council home.
The boy's teachers and medical supporters all say that the boy can't cope with public transport and has bad meltdowns on it.
The council doesn't seem to believe them. It is proposing that an assessor of some sort takes the boy on public transport to get "direct observational evidence" of what happens.
In other words, the council wants to put the boy in an environment that he can't cope with to record him not coping with it.
Is this actual abuse?
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