Dear Supporters of Anthony,
Your support has made an important difference. Please pass on this message to the people who were there and for whom I do not have an email address.
Thanks so much for your support at the protest last week, at the NAS Awards in Harrogate, 3rd March 2015. Following the protest The parents of Anthony Kletzander welcomed the action taken by Mark Lever, Chief Executive of National Autistic Society, to formally write to The Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland calling for an Independent investigation into the allegations of abuse, made by Anthony and his parents.
This is an important move taken by the NAS. When an independent investigation into the allegations of abuse is initiated by HSE, Autism Accreditation, will be suspended from Nua Healthcare, pending the outcome of that independent investigation.
Clearly the focus of who conducts the “Independent investigation” will require much critical scrutiny, Anthony’s friends are here to do just that.
It is intolerable that a disabled person has to be subjected to such struggles to get what is accepted as a right for so many non disabled people.
We will continue the struggle with Anthony until he gets what he knows is his right to Independent Living, with appropriate support.
Joe Whittaker