To poke area to find out. In the 1st part of our investigation into the treatment of disabled people in European Union countries we revealed shocking evidence of abuse. People that act. 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 is. 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 europes 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 work ptolemy their basic autonomy away say that this is the wrong approach both ethically morally but also legally under international. July this year and were meeting a team from the u. S. Charity disability. Writes international in recent months theyve been inside 24 homes and day sentence one across this country they tell us what they seen has left them profoundly shocked. What weve 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. Who is well known as down syndrome has been sitting on this body. The last half hour well weve been here. For holloway. Its overwhelming stench and then things so this was 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 and. In another him a young woman is tied in a wheelchair its too big and inappropriate she could have a purpose built chair for 10 if someone else pays for it she weighs 800 kilograms and how old we said shes 2627 was 18 kilograms. Later shes untied and put in a call out. She bangs herself she bangs the crib were told theres no specific behavior programs for that its just a lack of stimulation. This 12 year old boy has splints on his arms to restrict his movement. There to protect him from biting him so. He cant bend his arms so he cant use his arms to eat. And theyre feeding him. They will say find this. This is a cage we have to figure out why and when its used. This is the young boy who was shot in the planet at night seen him with one of the charity investigators many staff say they fear for his safety when there arent enough workers to look after him the charity team is told the boy is blind how. 25 years ago we documented cages in these institutions theyve 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 theyre put there precisely because theres not a staff its an outrage that cages would be used today in group homes. Over from the bulgarian Helsinki Commission is part of an Academic Network that satisfy the European Commission on disability if you use these mobile homes or supposed to provide the level of care and the environment thats close to the family one but the majority of the group homes im sorry repeated to a large institutional model so the big part of the money was spent on buildings on equipment on furniture but not on salaries on training also provision or guidance of the people who were supposed to develop this process and to work with this. Directly. This argument about inadequate start and craning his to the heart of cathy young people in bunk areas group aims. Travelling here we were told of concerns of a safety if there arent enough workers. We matched to men living in a group who shared their experiences they asked us to disguise their identities. As a distance manson improvable down and. Said just a mad dog was just been down. The stairs will feel it just you get it and then we just put all the tribulation here but i remember now because by then that is a person on the. For the men and the more robot and monitor goes for their mobile regional but now to try and anomalies that are good for not boring or even direct most mankato out 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 bug area but in other european Member States. More is poised to be given in the future. But one question raised from our investigation was even tissues knew about the places they funded. There were just the grades to whatever bulgaria suggest the auditors. Get here there were more interested in whether the money was spent they were not interested in whether the money for. The child or the prison in need. This footage is from another group had been bugged area which has received funding from the European Union which was part of evidence gathered by the n. G. A. Disability Rights International for a recent report. In the corner of the room oped miss and in one of them a young man is lying he has new bedding nothing to do or distract him. In another center thats 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. Theres a child in the back because i didnt want his head from try to intercept us they wont let us get closer this is a treatable condition if the child had been given a shot but 3 years after having moved from the institution to this socalled 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 and concern about how theyre positioned in beds. Many from the charity has questions about the way this young woman is lying shes concerned it might lead to pressure. Theyre not really any of the pressure on any of the muscles and the patently of the joints ok we also saw many children quickly nicholas. In may she added biting new cells rocking back and forth chewing their fingers. But during our investigations here on occasions not only of neglect evidence of violence against disabled youngsters in a group home which received in money and cost. We came to governor with human rights lawyer another general whos visited a range of group who lives in this country in the outskirts of a city around 10 Young Students a place thats been the focus of concern. To the press in january 28th i were can repeat at least trikes a resident denying in a bed she walks round and shouts aggressively at the youngster we understand staff workers involved in this incident were removed what did you make of that theres a new story its my 1st thought was that this is everywhere its not only there in this kind of settings that our lesson is something. Which happened youre talking about Human Rights Watch yes exactly when you go around and you visit group homes like this what kind of information to elect about the quality of. The residence at least 1st of all is the observation how the staff is acting with the children usually its something which can all be i hear them because theyre affecting gives us normal and for me all these signs are the most important if somebody is already a door hit the tower in front of me or my colleagues if you can imagine what happened where we are nowhere. In vogue areas capital an attorney in. Introduces us to a man who knows all about how institutional life can breed a piece you gay son of lived in one of the countrys most new torrijos institutions where he says for 7 years he was forcibly medicated and put in isolation for a lengthy period. He managed to leave when he was 28. Dollars drifted towards it the more it theres a brother the earlier version of the more. It is because theres a rational its there in america. Was to get at that it took. His back and not the sum of all it. Doesnt was the office thought all got the matter. But. He will be took us to the institution where he used to live to find out if anythings changed since he left the institution is still in for and 80 people with disabilities. The director told us we couldnt take our cameras inside or get written is that just as fertility but we were allowed in where the director revealed plans for new group homes up to 8 to be built with funding contribution from the e. U. 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 theyll be no real change for disabled residents. Sort of. Nor. The minute he struck. The fear for Disability Campaign has is that European Union money fuels a model thats 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 stone as a gora leading disability advocate kept out of a is furious about how she says moneys been spent in her country. After a proper. To say no we didnt waste the money that makes me furious not just going to guess that its a lie. Disabled from a young age has never lived in an institution but today were going to see her friends and to see who still does. She small. Bridge aisle looking at the scenes and. So gets our minds. To live our own lives wind theres one divorce or one might so ok but also willing to live life its the old stuff that theres more than status. Outside the city of starters gora we arrive at a state hell forever 100 disabled people because friend you do you see to have friends is staten you turfs you see was put in institutional care until your old shed been in this place since 995. It is knowledge bleak impersonal and theres a set regime. With the dining room where everybody expects that the common carb meal. Breck with one and then that. She shares a small room with her friend Christina Booth women a published writer. And recording what institutional life can be like for other residents here. Say that are there. So that. Check on the lawyer the chapter on near the birth or what of the past. The chilly plenum or the subtle but of course the cooktop of now. Lucy works as a librarian but when it comes to living in this institution she says shes caught in a vicious circle around things mean shes not the threshold for state housing she cant afford to pay for adaptations she needs in privately rented apartments. Those out of the couple are richer in this approach as the ball though but in the rift now going to go live with an arc of the novel in the show to put off for nearly. Now marketing. Officials have suggested you seem to agree with. A suggestion she says at least on how she wants to live her life. List of quote of the where the percentage the most this in the us well the answer. To him or a little bit of storm will demolish what quote the risk to with. In a statement about kerry and government dismissed the charity disability Rights Internationals 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 its called the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities the un c. R. P. 18 and it was a satisfied 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 cars is generally how much it is. Just your. Thank. God we are working on the divisional says he too is fighting on this issue but its not good everyone playing each other so we are fighting your fighting in europe with im fighting a life place we are fighting but leave each other in a bit never resulted and. So should the team put money into glue pains and where does the United Nations stand on this we caught up with the un rapporteurs in the hallway. In practice for us what its important is not the size of the place is not how the players look like. Its actually what is the culture of that plays where people with disabilities are locked the private the rights. And live and the 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 dont leave is that wrong yourself from that from the from the. During the course of this 2 part investigation evidence weve gathered in remaining are hungry and bog 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 weve 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 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 the Commission Im not going to comment on the group because im not going to go into any individual cases and i think we are here to set of the example and to set the principles hyrst the commission actually sanctioned any countries where they found out abuses have it taken money away have they said stop it you actually done abuses are not acceptable under and we looked. Im willing to see a mouth 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 op human rights reports with funding i mean it would seem the simplest thing to do i dont want us to get into the game between connection of e. U. Funding and abuses i mean we have heard or should serve of abuses in group aims that have been in receipt of Youth Violence i mean we have that would clearly seem to be something you should be interested in but you dont want to link the 2 things but lets just say ive got another one at least at this point an advisor interrupted off camera of course you dont comment on individual cases but of course we have instruments for your friends for us as well laurence 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 just interrupt our interview of 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 gently 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 its 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 for all say were going to stick to the convention were going to push to mean she living which is an e. U. Policy and get on with it this is absolutely what you can do to try to spell it out do you interpret it has been saying and you also fully aware of all responsibilities and are combatants is 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 risible easts that base a lot of attention cares a lot and well do everything that people are being institutionalized. A new European Union budget was agreed this november while in bulgaria 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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