3: 'Give the baby away and have a healthy one'

‘Give it away and have a healthy one,’ was the abhorrent advice given to a mother of a child with learning disabilities in the 1930s, according to a speaker at the recent Learning Disability Practice conference in Manchester earlier this month.

The third episode of the Nursing Standard Podcast discusses how attitudes towards people with learning disabilities have since changed.

Following the usual news section, reporter Matthew Mckew interviews speakers from the conference on changing perspectives, ageing, palliative care, chemical restraint and more.

Presented by Matthew Mckew
Music by Sam Tyler
Produced by RCNi and Nursing Standard