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The Netherlands: Personal budgets decimated by cuts
Posted 09/06-11 at 15.09
Citing the need to reduce spending, the government is removing personal budgets from 90% of disabled people (117,000) who have been organising their own support. From 2014, only people classified as needing residential care will be eligible for a ...
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The Netherlands: HORROR STORY. Disabled teenager tied up for three years in institution
Posted 02/02-11 at 12.05
The Dutch government defended the practice of continual restraint for patients with mental health problems, after photos of a tethered 18-year-old were shown on TV. ...