Ealing Council Refuse To Allow Service Users To Hang THEIR Own Handmade Banners!!!

The Ealing Council Director of Adult Social Services, Stephen Day, has instructed management to remove any banners protesting against the impending closure of the Albert Dane Day Centre for disabled adults hung on the gates outside the day centre.
The service users have got together and made the banners themselves in the hope of getting help to save their centre in the current round of cuts to Social Services.
Service users now have no choice but to stand outside the centre and hold their banners up by hand. This places some of them at risk from serious injury, not to mention having to  stand or sit outside in their wheelchairs the increasingly chilly autumnal weather.
Staff at Albert Dane have been threatened with disciplinary action should they assist the users,even if this is just to ensure the safety of the service users who sufffer from physical and sensory disabilities and who could be put at serious risk on the street.

We will NOT be silenced!

Shame on Stephen Day for putting Vulnerable Adults at further risk of harm.

email him directly in protest at this disgraceful action!

days@ealing.gov.uk

Further to this a word from Val Garrard, service user at The Albert Dane Centre...

"DO NOT let Ealing Council close Albert Dane Centre! WE CANNOT LET THE COUNCIL OR THE GOVERNMENT WIN THIS ONE.
JOIN US AT THE PUBLIC CABINET MEETING AND LOBBY OUTSIDE EALING TOWN HALL NOVEMBER 9TH - 5pm.
MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOSE FRIENDS AND SUPPORT THEY DESPARATELY NEED AT THE ALBERT DANE CENTRE IF IT CLOSES. COME TO ACTON HIGH STREET ON SAT ...9TH OCT 11-1 AND SIGN OUR PETITION"

VAL GARRARD - ALBERT DANE SERVICE USER