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Parenting: Future planning to care for children

Many parents of children with learning disabilities fear for the time when they can no longer take care of their child. Jenni explores what can happen.

Many parents of children with learning disabilities fear for the time when they can no longer take care of their child. Who will take charge, who will pay and how well will they do the role? Jenni talks to 78 year old Bernie whose son Geoffrey, now aged 39 has Down鈥檚 Syndrome and Fran Crake who runs Thrive, a support service for older parents and carers at the charity Talbot House in Manchester.

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