The storyteller argues that councils should not restructure services for people with learning disabilities or autism without including people with disabilities and lived experience on committees and in decision-making and service creation.

While they applaud efforts to bring personal stories (often tragic) to decision makers, they insist this should not be the end point; meaningful inclusion needs to extend to designing the services themselves.

They compare it to cancer treatment, saying it would be unreasonable to build such a service without involving people who have cancer, and call it nonsense to rely on stories and then exclude disabled people from the decision making process