The death of Beverley Lewis has many implications and should help lead to some important changes. There are still many concerns that have not been investigated and until they have been, significant shortcomings in community care and services for sensory impaired people and their carers will inevitably remain.
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Provision for Special Educational Needs, Report by the Principal Education Officer (Special Education), Gloucestershire Education Authority , to Gloucestershire Education Committee's Policy and Review Sub-Committee, 9 October 1989.
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Brown, Norman (Family Liaison Officer, Sense), Beverley Lewis: Who cares? (unpublished paper)
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Caring for people: Community Care in the next decade and beyond, Paper presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health, Social Security, Wales and Scotland in November 1989, Cm. 849, HMSO, 1989.