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Surely the council should be taking a more flexible and more human approach to the issue by looking at the impact on people’s lives and saying, “As far as we’re concerned, this has been deliberately planted with a view to obscuring someone’s light.”
I would say that it is a human rights issue because there is a level of uncertainty in people’s day-to-day lives, and in their family lives, in that they do not know how the situation will move forward.
I want to reference a comment from the report, covering the lived experience of a youngster who, feeling isolated and alone, sought to self-diagnose online: “The internet is a very scary place.
A lot of parents do not do that; a lot of parents live day to day and are still living with the hope that, somewhere in the course of their journey, there will be a cure.
We need to recognise that when people need assistance to live and go about their daily lives, they are still entitled to live their lives as they see fit.