Taxpayers' cash spent on lapdancers for the disabled
TAXPAYERS’ cash is being spent on prostitutes and lap dancers under a policy to give disabled people more independence, it emerged yesterday.
One council is footing the bill for a 21-year-old man with learning disabilities to have sex with a prostitute in Amsterdam next month.
Another case revealed in documents is of a man who got funding for a holiday in Tunisia and an internet dating site subscription after suffering psychiatric problems when his wife asked for a divorce. Payments are made under a £520million Labour scheme which enables social services customers to decide how money for their care is spent.
Liz Sayce, of disability group Radar, said the desire for sex was a matter of human rights. But Neil Coyle, of Disability Alliance, said most disabled people sought only essential help, for example with dressing and washing, “to maintain some level of dignified existence”.
