Please post if you can on the Telegraph boards re legal aid cuts

November 14, 2010

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See this post and the reply to it:

" At the moment we are going through Tribunal to try and get the local authority

to make adequate provision to meet our son's special educational needs. Unless

you have personal experience of anything similar you will have no idea how

balatantly and brutally education authorities ignore the law every day, and the

awful damage this does to the children and their families. We aren't after

money: we just want our child to have a half-decent education. It sounds as

though the governement's proposals will remove access to Legal Aid for appeals

to tribunal.

If this happens our son's future looks extremely bad. He has severe autism and

severe learning disability. "

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" daggersedge

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As it stands, your son will always be a drain on the British taxpayer. You may

not like to hear this, but it is true. You, at this moment, probably receive

taxpayer money because of his disability. When you can no longer take care of

him because of death, illness or old age, he will have to be moved into a

taxpayer-funded facility.

Given all this, why should British taxpayers have to pay for your son's

education? Your son will never ever be able to repay all the money lavished on

him. He will never be able to hold a job. He will never be able to contribute to

his community except in 'special' taxpayer-funded projects that make

'allowances' for his disability.

It's people like you, people who want the taxpayer to pay for their problems,

that promotes the growth of the nanny state. I say that if you want your son to

be educated - whatever good it will do anyone - then fine, pay for it yourself. "

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