Children with disabilities still being institutionalised, despite our horror at Mother & Baby Homes report

Julie Helen grapples with how disability was covered in the report and the fact that parents with disabilities are still having children removed from their care
Children with disabilities still being institutionalised, despite our horror at Mother & Baby Homes report

Julie Helen is a mother with a physical disability and sister to a man with an intellectual disability.

As a disabled mother, I sit in my wheelchair holding my beautiful one-year-old and I reflect on how disability was covered in the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.

I am grappling with the harrowing information.

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