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12 J. Soc. Welfare & Fam. L. 3 (1990)

handle is hein.journals/jnlosclwl12 and id is 1 raw text is: Points of View By John McMaster The large charities spend substantial sums of money on publicity and packaging promulgating their message to the public. Advertising and providing infor- mation has become a highly professional activity for them and when it is done successfully it strikes home with great effect. It can also show glaring gaps in State provision. In this respect I was impressed by two recent publications from Barnardos. (I think that most people are now aware that Dr. has been dropped in an attempt to present a much more modern image.) These are entitled IF YOU LET ME and I CAN'T GO BACK TO MUM AND DAD. The first is a des- cription of Bamardo's campaign to enable young people with a mental handicap to become all they can be. The second highlights the plight of many young people leaving care. Each publication describes many real case studies which underline the inade- quacy of services and support systems. Three examples are given from the publi- cations. Iain is 21, has profound handicaps and suffers from acute epilepsy. He has up to 36 major epileptic seizures every month. He uses a wheelchair outside, and can only walk small distances inside. Sometimes he needs two people to help him move around. He moved from a long stay hospital into a house run by Barnardo's some three years ago. The project acts as a halfway house to finding a home for life in the community. Iain's move was seen very much as a temporary one, the object was to find him a place with a family or in another residential unit. lain needs small scale domestic care, with a high level of medical input, and 24-hour support and care. The staff at the project began looking for accommodation for lain preferably in the Glasgow area as his family lives in Glasgow and he is very close to them. His parents strongly want him to stay in the community. The project was unable to find any suitable options in the Glasgow area, so they widened their scope to the whole of Scotland. Nothing suitable was found in Scotland, and so they widened their scope to include England and Wales. Once again, nothing was available. lain is now still in the project, a supposedly temporary unit. The staff in the unit feel that they cannot give him the time he deserves. All the young people who joined the project when he did have now left, so he has no contemporar- ies. The project feel they have little or no hope of finding any long term accom- modation options for lain, and are concerned that this will have an increasingly damaging effect on his personal development. Susanne is now 22. Her mental handicap seems to be the result of injuries at birth. She was referred to Bamardo's Dr. B's Kitchen project in Harrogate, Yorkshire, by her mother. Dr. B's provides vocational training, for young 3

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