How hate crime and violence impacts people with learning disabilities
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This research looks at hate crime and violence.
We wanted to find out how hate crime makes people with learning disabilities feel and how it affects their health and wellbeing.
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What we did
We held focus groups and interviews with people with learning disabilities across Scotland.
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What we found
We found that everybody we interviewed had experienced hate crime or violence.
Hate crime and violence caused people with learning disabilities to have poorer health.
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What we will do next
We will write a report to put on our website.
We will continue to find out how violence against women with learning disabilities affects their health.