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2014 people and revealed the shameful treatment of disabled people in romania states from. our investigation also raised questions about why the e.u. was funding some of those institutions now there are a fresh allegations about neglect and mistreatment this time not just in romania but in neighboring countries in the 2nd of 2 special reports sarah spell it has been to poke area to find that middle.

in the 1st part of our investigation into the treatment of disabled people in european union countries we revealed shocking evidence of abuse. neglect. and incarceration in state institutions. for our 2nd film we start in bulk area another country with an appalling past when it comes to the treatment of people with disabilities now praised as a model for using millions in even money to move children from institutions and a way forward to other member states. one controversial part of the reform is the creation of watercooled small group homes.

the claim is that these places for up to 15 children and youngsters are about a family environment community. but during this investigation we gained 1st hand evidence from inside bug areas group aliens evidence which raises disturbing questions not only about abuse neglect but about whether these places really can change life for europe's disabled citizens. these are beautiful brand spanking settings but they still remain as the 2 shows people come and go they still do not have their what ptolemy their basic autonomy away say that this is the wrong approach both ethically morally but also legally under international. july this year and we're meeting

a team from the u.s. charity disability. writes international in recent months they've been inside 24 homes and day sentence across this country they tell us what they've seen has left them profoundly shocked. what we've seen is the perpetuation of neglect abuse and segregation it is human lives thrown away. despite welcoming interiors in one hand they find youngsters in a corridor or one naked. nearby another young woman. is well known as down syndrome has been sitting on this body. the last half hour while we've been here. for holloway. it's overwhelming stench and then things this man is in isolation neatly in a locked door while one staff member seemed unaware he was knocked in another

suggested it was because they were short of staff was lunch was prepared. in another him a young woman is tied in a wheelchair it's too big and inappropriate she could have a purpose built chair but any of someone else pays for it she weighs 800 kilograms and how old we said she's 2627 was 18 kilograms. later she's untied and put in a caught. she bangs herself she bangs the crib we're told there's no specific behavior programs for that it's just a lack of stimulation and. this 12 year old boy has splints on his arms to restrict his movement. there to protect him from biting him so. he can't bend his arms so he can't use his arms to eat. and they're feeding him. they will say

find this. this is a cage we have to figure out why and when it's used to. this is the young boy who was shot in the planet night seen here with one of the charity investigators many staff say they fear for his safety when there aren't enough why. after him the charity team is told the boy is blind. and. 25 years ago we documented cages in these institutions they've gone from being the old wire cage to a nice piece of furniture they blend in they almost look like you could have bought it at ikea but what it was is bars wooden bars totally humiliating for any child and they're put there precisely because there's not the stuff it's an outrage that cages would be used today in group homes.

over from the bulgarian helsinki commission is part of an academic network that sent by the european commission on disability there's more work homes or supposed to provide the level of care and the environment that's close to the family one but the majority of the group homes i'm sorry repeated to a large institutional model so the big part of the money was spent on building zoning month on furniture but not on salaries on training provision or guidance of the people who were supposed to develop this process and to work with this. directly. this argument about inadequate start training is to the heart of cathy young people in bunker areas group aims. travelling here we were told of

concerns even safety if there aren't enough workers. we matched to known women living in a group who shared their experiences they asked us to disguise their identities. no regrets were dismissed manson improvable down and. said just a mad dog was just been down. the stairs fulfilling just your. than it. is just what richard bridges here but i'm a man now goes by that there is a good synonymous with minimal robot and the numbers are at their mobile regional the where now to train an anomaly stopped but not boring or even direct must man there is to raise. awareness through. hundreds of millions in e.u. money has flowed from the coffers of brussels to create repayments not only in

bulgaria but in other european member states. more is poised to be given in the future. but one question raised from our investigation even if issues knew about the places they funded. the just the grades to whatever suggest the auditors. gave here there were more interested in whether the money was spent there were not interested in whether the money for the child or the prison in need. this footage is from another group in bug area which has received funding from the european union it was part of evidence gathered by the n.g.a. disability rights international for a recent report. in the corner of the room op-ed miss and in one of them a young man is lying he has new bedding nothing to do or distract him. in

another center that's also been in receipt of e.u. funds the charities investigators find a boy suffering from the condition hydrocephalus which causes fluid to connect in the brain. there's a troll in the back as an enormous head from try it yourself yes they won't let us get closer this is a treatable be. addition if the child had been given a shot but 3 years after having moved from the institution to this so-called group home the child had not been assessed to determine whether or not they received you know medical care. in the same center where severely disabled children and young people need constant medical care a concern about how that positioned in beds. meant any from the charity has questions about the way this young woman is lying she's

concerned it might lead to pressure. they're not really any of the pressure on any of the muscles not apparently of the joints ok we also saw many children including neglected in emaciated biting who sells rocking back and forth chewing their fingers. but jeering our investigations here on occasions not only of neglect evidence of violence against disabled youngsters in a group home which received in money. we came to governor of a with human rights lawyer another general who's visited a range of group homes in this country in the outskirts of a city home for around 10 youngsters a place that's been the focus of concern. to the press in january 28th i welcome repeatedly strikes a resident lying in

a bed she walks around and shouts aggressively at the youngster we understand stuff work is involved in this incident were removed what did you make of that there's a funny story it's my 1st thought was that. it's not only there in this kind of so i think that our lesson is serving. with hipaa you're talking about human rights yes be exactly what. you go around and you visit group hate was like what kind of information to you that about the quality of. the residence at least 1st of all is the opposite of a cell how the stuff is acting with the children usually it's something which can all be i hear them because they're affecting gives us normal and for me all these signs are the most important if somebody is very good for him that's how the thing for me or my colleagues if you can imagine what happened and

why we are nowhere. in both areas capital and introduces us to a man who knows what we're about how institutional knowledge can breed a piece you know if you lived in one of the countries miss new tourists institutions where he says for 7 years he was forcibly medicated and put in isolation and people reached. the managed to leave when he was 28. more exist. in near those areas of the more as a total it is because those are more it's. used to get something to do. justice but i could not. and i forgot about the pope but. he will be took us to the

institution where he used to live to find out if anything's changed since he left the institution is still in for and 80 people with disabilities. the director told us we couldn't take our cameras inside or get written is that if you just as for eternity but we were allowed in where the director revealed plans for a new group homes up to 8 to be built with funding contribution from the you but not it seems in the village beyond the homes were built in the grounds nearby. outside gave us his reaction. away from the institution q he tells us of his concern that they'll be no real change for disabled resident. because this material. sort of.

nor you know what discipline in a district. to fear for disability campaign has is that european union money fuels a model that's far from being the kind of community living 1st in physics when there was a clamor to close down institutions in this country. on a journey to the city of start as a war a leading disability advocate kept a lot of us is furious about how she says money has been spent in her country. after this propaganda. to say no we didn't waste the money that makes me furious not just going to guess that it's a lie. disabled from a young age has never lived in an institution but today we're going to see her friends and to see who still does. she says. no. but for a gyal look. at the scenes and. i'll get to

our minds. to live our own lives wind there's one divorce or one might so eva balls over willing to live for our life is the oh fuck to this board institution. outside the city of stars gora we arrive at a state held him for over a 100 disabled people because friend you see to her friends is staten you turfs you see was put in institutional care until you're old she's been in this place since 995. it is knowledge bleak impersonal and there's a set regime. with the dining room where everybody expected the common carb meal. breck was one than that. she shares a small room with her friend christina booth women a published writer observation and recording what institutional life can be like

for other residents here. say the residential start so they didn't. check on the northern edge of the are near the bridge top of the. neck of the chilly plenum or the subtle but don't hold up the top of no work. as a librarian but when it comes to living in this institution she says she's caught in a vicious circle her mannings mean she's got the threshold for state housing but she can't afford to pay for adaptations she needs in privately rented apartments. and those out of the capital which are in the support just the ball the bill in the now going to go live with an arc of the novel in the show to put off for. her the tradition. officials have suggested you seem to agree with

a suggestion she says at least on how she wants to live her life. to finish the work of the where the percentage the most this in the us well the answers. to any more little. store of knowledge will go to the risk that they are with. in a statement about gary and government dismissed the charity disability rights international's conclusions as tendentious and not representative aiming to underestimates the process of deinstitutionalisation in bulgaria they said they closed 116 specialized institutions and the main focus was the prevention of child abandonment and reintegration into a family as a result they said a very small number of the children with disabilities in bug area are placed in residential care they rejected suggestions money for group homes was spent on buildings rather than staffing reform is funded by the state they said. over

450000000 euros has been allocated from the state budget adding just 260000000 came from e.u. funds we strongly deny the statement that there are human rights violations in both gary and group homes. october this year and disability advocates are in brussels for a conference one of their key demands is that the european union stands by an important un convention on the rights of people with disabilities to live independently it's called the united nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities the un c.r.p. 18 and it was gratified by the european union in 2010. but campaigners claim building new group aims to disabled children and adults is not all those with the right outlined in the convention stephen ireland from the n.g.a.

validity asks an e.u. commission official about the practice of putting money into these homes. is there a general. paused slow those practices is generally how much it is. just your. colleagues we are working with the divisional says he too is fighting on this issue but it's not good everyone playing each other so we are fighting your fighting in europe with i'm fighting a lot of place we are fighting but the league title do not get another result and. so should the team put money into green pains and where does the united nations stand on this we caught up with the un rapporteurs in go away. in practice for us what it's important is not the size of the place is not how the players look

like. it's actually what is the culture of that plays where people with disabilities are locked the private the rights. and live an institutional life the the 4 millions into family type. homes where there are serious concerns that the culture that exists is still one an institution people simply don't believe is that wrong in your zofran that's from the from the. during the course of this 2 part investigation evidence we've gathered in remaining are hungry and bug area has led to serious questions about the european union and the right of people with disabilities to live in the community. and about abuse in institutions in states that have been in receipt of e.u. money we put those questions to an e.u. commission director starting by asking about human rights violations on one of the

things that we've heard is that when the commission is told about abuses they fail to take responsibility for it the fact is that when we speak about specific cases if they are curious why member state the national authorities are the one who are responsible for the support the state of play you are responsible for the status of the persons will be the disability is that it is not there i mean this is european taxpayers' money going into institutions where vulnerable e.u. citizens are being abused now you will be aware of this particular example which is top us in hungary subject to a very long complaints commission i'm not going to comment on the group because i'm not going to go into any individual cases and i think we are here to set the example and to set the principles hyrst the commission actually sanctioned any countries where they found out abuses have they taken money away have they said stop it you actually done abuses are not acceptable under and we looked. usually

there are men willing to come out without any question about it so and as so most if we would look at the information on such a believe me we will go deeply and look into what is happening do you not have people that could marry are up human rights reports with funding i mean it would seem the simplest thing to do i don't want us to get into the game between connection of funding and abuses i mean we have heard or should say of abuses in group aims that have been received of youth violence i mean we have that would clearly seem to be something you should be interested in but you don't want to link the 2 things but because you say i've got another one at least at this point an advisor interrupted off camera of course you don't comment on individual cases but of course your instrument is for your friends for those eggs lawrence you discussion about what legal remedies the e.u.

could use in cases where there are abuses to the institution of fatherhood were you sitting there talking so frankly you need to have just interrupted our interview uniform point uses with friends. of course students. to address them oh so often has that happened this use of these clear instruments the revealed is indeed any fat hair so is it being used here and the european social fund will not have any reports of such a reason to stop funding the director told us that member states do have to produce strategic documents when they want to e.u. funds we have been. following each stage of the development of the documents and pushing our member states to do it in accordance with un convention on the rights of the persons with disabilities you brought up the un c r p

d which is obviously very significant very significant. benj now one contention is that the e.u. in funding group homes is not funding independent living it's funding many institutions which have all the characteristics of big institutions and that that should stop what the un convention is is does not define what independent living means it is as you rightly pointed in the right approach and the right to base choice for the person with disabilities should make so in this respect a d.c. or indeed important to ask persons with disabilities what do they want and how do they want to live when or ponson floral say we're going to stick to the convention we're going to push me she living which is an e.u. policy and get on with it this is absolutely what you can try to do you interpret it has been saying and you is also fully aware of all responsibilities and are

competent says when it comes to the independent living so instead of trying to put me in a position of really not doing anything i wish you would recognize what we have been doing and that we have been the really doing a lot but the clear message that i think should be sent and should be really with simple ease that your face a lot of attention cares a lot and will do everything that people are being institutionalized. in your european union budget was agreed this november while in bug area disability organizations are taking the european commission to court in a bid to stop e.u. money going into dozens more residential homes for disabled people.

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