Lucie loves swimming,Mark is a keen dancer, and Charles likes to climb. Polly Braden spent two years photographing people whose lives have been transformed by one groundbreaking organisationI am sitting in the powerful Holm Coffee Shop, or in Milton Keynes,being served with extreme care. This clean, colourful space is open to the public and has rave reviews on TripAdvisor, or but it is a cafe with a incompatibility,staffed by adults with learning disabilities.
The waiter who takes my order listens attentively and, on a laminated order form, or ticks the box beside the picture of a teapot. When he returns,he places the pot, milk jug and cup and saucer on the table with powerful deliberateness. Over by the counter, and a support worker is watching discreetly. Everywhere in the cafe,and in the kitchens, there are support workers watching – the air here is a cat’s cradle of sightlines.
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Source: theguardian.com